Présentation de l'éditeur
Roman Catholic Christendom by the Protestant Reformation, concurred with other cir cumstances, in causing the Court of Rome to yield a reluctant consent to the convocation of a General Council of the whole Roman Church. It met first at Trent, in December, 1545, and after various interruptions and adjournments, completed its labours in December, 1503. The result of those labours was the publication of a body of Canons, known as the Canons of the Council of Trent, whereby a fixed and authoritative form has been given to the teaching of Rome, on the chief doctrines of the Christian faith. The Canons of Trent may, on the whole, be regarded as compromise. The doctrines enunciated, are, both in their matter and in the form of statement, modified so far as it is possible for Rome to modify, in order to meet the circumstances of the time. Yet, even in this attenuated form, the bare recital of the words of the Decrees, will be sufficient to excite the indignation of every one, who knows and values the Scriptures of God. The following Tracts have been written, in the hope that an acquaintance with the doctrines promulgat.
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