The Statutes of the Fourth General Council of Lateran, by J. Evans (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1843. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Seventy Canons which pass under the name of " The Canons of the Fourth General Lateran Council." In an Essay by Dr. Doyle, we read, "The truth is, that the acts of this Council, or at least a great portion of them, were ascribed rather to Pope Innocent than to the Council itself. Platina ascribes them to him, so does Rigordus: his nephew, Gregory IX, does so, whilst he inserts them in his book of decretals"--most true, his nephew Gregory does so, "and with an addition which Dr. Doyle has thought prudent to omit," for his nephew, Gregory, adds the following most important words, "Innocent III. in Concilio Generali" > Lib. V. Tit. VII c. 13.] It is a pity that Dr. Doyle has not informed us what "portion of them" was ascribed to Innocent, and what to the Council, for by admitting that a great portion of them was ascribed to Innocent, he, at the same time, necessarily admits that some portion of them was ascribed to the Council, and this admission by no means tends to make the matter clear, but brings the Dr. into collision with the Honourable and Rev. A. P. Perceval, who in his " Roman Schism"2 tells us that Matthew Paris, Platina, and Nauclerus as cited by Bishop Taylor s and Du Pin, as cited by Collier, all agree that the seventy Canons which pass by the i P. 85. 2 Decret. Greg. Papa, ix. Tom. ii. p. 240, Parisiis, 1687. 3 "The word transubstantiation] did so please Innocentius III, that he inserted it into one of the Seventy Canons which he proposed to the Lateran Council, A.D. 1215, which Canons they heard read, but determined nothing concerning them, as Mathew Paris, Platina, and Nauclerus, witness. But they got reputation by being inserted by Gregory IX into his Decretals, which yet he did not in the name of the Council, but of Innocentius to the Council...