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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. The Faith Which is Imputative Of The Merit-And Righteousness Of Christ The Redeemer, First Arose From The Decrees Of The Council Of Nice, Concerning Three Dlvine Persons From Eternity, Which Faith Has Been Received By The Whole Christian World From That Time To The Present. 632. As to the Nicene Council itself; it was convoked by the emperor Constantine the Great, by the advice of Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, all the bishops in Asia, Africa, and Europe being summoned to compose it; and was held in his palace at Nice, a city in Bithynia. Its object was to overthrow and condemn, from the sacred writings, the heresy of Arius, a presbyter of Alexandria, who denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ. This took place in the year of Christ 325. The members of that council decided that there were from eternity three Divine persons, ? Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; as is evident especially from the two creeds called the Nicene and the Athanasian. In the Nicene creed we read; I believe in one God the Father, omnipotent, Maker of heaven and earth; and in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only begotten of the Father, born before all ages, God from God, consubstantial with the Father, Who descended from the heavens and was incarnated by the Holy Spirit from the virgin Mary; and in the Holy Spirit, Lord and Vivifiei, Who proceeds from the Father and the Son, and Who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified. In the Athanasian creed is the following: The Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in a Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the person nor separating the substance. But as we are coiti- There is an error, probably typographical, in the date as given in the original Latin. It was corrected in the reprint pelled by t...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459005105 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459005104 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $26.06 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 254 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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