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Page 33. Titles. Pope Innocent III declared that the Roman
pontiff is “the vicegerent upon earth, not of a mere man, but of very
God.” See Decretals of the Lord Pope Gregory IX, liber 1, title 7,
ch. 3. Corp. Jur. Canon. (2d Leipzig ed., 1881), col. 99.
For the title “Lord God the Pope” see a gloss on the Extrava-
gantes of Pope John XXII, title 14, ch. 4, Declaramus. In an Antwerp
edition of the Extravagantes, dated 1584, the words “Dominum
Deum nostrum Papam” (“Our Lord God the Pope”) occur in column
153.
Page 33. Infallibility. See Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christen-
dom, vol. II, Dogmatic Decrees of the Vatican Council, pp. 234-271;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. VII, art. “Infallibility”; James Car-
dinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (Baltimore: John Murphy
Co., 110th ed., 1917), chs. 7, 11.
Page 33. Image Worship. “The worship of images ... was one
of those corruptions of Christianity which crept into the church
stealthily and almost without notice or observation. ... So gradually
was one practice after another introduced in connection with it,
that the church had become deeply steeped in practical idolatry, ...
almost without any decided remonstrance; and when at length an
endeavor was made to root it out, the evil was found too deeply fixed
to admit of removal.”—J. Mendham, The Seventh General Council,
the Second of Nicaea, Introduction, pages iii-vi.
For a record of the proceedings and decisions of the Second
Council of Nicea, A.D. 787, called to establish the worship of
images, see A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,
second series, vol. XIV, pp. 521-587 (New York, 1900); C. J.
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Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church, From the Original
Documents, bk. 18, ch. 1, secs. 332, 333; ch. 2, secs. 345-352 (T.
and T. Clark, ed. 1896), vol. 5, pp. 260-304, 342-372.
Page 34. The Sunday Law of Constantine. The law is given
in Latin and in English translation in Philip Schaff’s History of
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