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On the Clause 'and the Son' in Regard to the Eastern Church and the Bonn Conference, a Letter
On the Clause 'and the Son' in Regard to the Eastern Church and the Bonn Conference a Letter Author:Edward Bouverie Pusey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: " For reverence of the most holy faith, and for the strengthening of the weak minds of men, the holy Synod enacts, with advice of our most pious and most glorious Lord, king Eecarede, that through all the Churches of Spain and Gallaacia the symbol of faith of the Council of Constantinople, i. e. of the 150 Bishops, should be recited according to the form of the Eastern Church; so that, before the Lord's prayer be said, it be sung with clear voice by the people: to the intent that the true faith should have a manifest testimony, and the hearts of the people approach, purified by faith, to taste the Body and Blood of Christ." The only solution seems to be, that the Spanish Bishops knew of no other expression of doctrine, and that, accordingly, it had, in some way, found its way into their Latin translation of the Creed. For the liturgical use of the Creed, which, by the multiplication of copies and its universal use, made variation impossible, dated from this Council. In the general Canon, confessing the Divinity of the Holy Ghost, proposed to the Council, the doctrine occurs as a part of the confession, as naturally as the denial of the Arian misbelief as to God the Son does in the preceding clause : " Whosoever denies that the Son of God our Lord Jesus Christ was, without beginning, begotten of the substance of the Father and is equal to the Father or consubstantial, let him be anathema." " Whosoever believeth not the Holy Ghost, or be- lieveth not that He proceedeth from the Father and the Son, or saith not that He is coeternal with the Father and the Son, let him be anathema." But the Spanish Ch...« less