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A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

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632 A <strong>Source</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Church</strong> <strong>History</strong>that they may know how to reject totally the errors of perniciousheresy, to remain in charity in the ways of the true faith, andto embrace with fervent desire the communion of the Catholic<strong>Church</strong>.… As it is of benefit to us to profess with the mouth whatwe believe in the heart … there<strong>for</strong>e I anathematize Arius with allhis doctrines … so I hold in honor, to the praise and honor andglory of God, the faith of the holy Council of Nicæa.… I embraceand hold the faith of the one hundred and fifty Fathers assembledat Constantinople.… I believe the faith of the first Council ofEphesus … likewise with all the Catholic <strong>Church</strong> I reverentlyreceive the faith of the Council of Chalcedon.… To this myconfession I have added the holy constitutions [i.e., confessionsof faith] of the above-mentioned councils, and I have subscribedwith complete singleness of heart to the divine testimony.Here follows the faith of Nicæa, the so-called creed ofConstantinople, with the words relating to the Holy Ghost, exPatre et Filio procedentem (proceeding from the Father andthe Son); the actual <strong>for</strong>m filioque does not here occur.III. From the Anathemas, Hahn, § 178.[578]3. Whosoever does not believe in the Holy Ghost and will notbelieve that He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and willnot say that He is co-essential with the Father and the Son, lethim be anathema.IV. From the Canons, Bruns, I, 212.Canon 1. After the damnation of the heresy of Arius and theexposition of the Catholic faith, this holy council ordered that,because in the midst of many heretics and heathen throughoutthe churches of Spain, the canonical order has been necessarilyneglected (<strong>for</strong> while liberty of transgressing abounded, and thedesirable discipline was denied, and every one fostered excesses

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