distinct, but nevertheless, one God; and though there might be some incautious phrases used by them, the good Bishops declared that if their decree was indeed Arian, or introduced aught to the derogation of the Son's absolute divinity, it was against their knowledge and intention, and that they renounced it.
Ib.
s. x. p. 46.
Gratian says, that the Council means by a concubine a wife married sine dote et solennitate; but this is daubing with untempered mortar.
Here I think Taylor wrong and Gratian right; for not a hundred years ago the very same decree was passed by the Lutheran clergy in Prussia, determining that left-hand marriages were to be discouraged, but did not exclude from communion. These marriages were invented for the sake of poor nobles: they could have but that one wife, and the children followed the rank and title of the mother, not of the father.
Ib.
s. vii. p. 56.
Thirdly; for pasce oves, there is little in that allegation besides the boldness of the objectors.
I have ever thought that the derivation of the Papal monarchy from the thrice repeated command,