A VERY few words, it is trusted, will suffice to put the reader in
possession of the object of the present work, and also of the
method pursued in order to attain that object. It has been
asserted, that "THE STATUTES OF THE FOURTH GBNERAL COUNCIL OF
LATERAN" were first published, as such, in the year 1538, just
three hundred and twenty three years after the said Council was
held; the object of the following sheets is to shew that these
Statutes were well known, and. Recognized, AS "STATUTES OF THE
FOURTH GENERAL COUNCIL OF LATERAN," by successive Councils and
Synods, from the year 1223 down to the Council of Trent, which com.
menced its sessions in the year 1545, and which fully recognizes
the Statutes in question. Such is the object of the present work,
and in order to attain that object, the following method has been
pursued. In fairness to those who have taken a different view of
the case, the witnesses, upon whose testimony they rely for proof
that the Council passed no acts at all, have been brought forward,
and allowed to tell their own story; the reader will, probably, be
of opinion that, instead of invalidating the authenticity and
genuineness of the Statutes in question, these witnesses bear no
slight testimony in their favour, and that a cross examination of
their evidence was quite unnecessary. The evidence of Matthew Paris
can only be made available, to discredit the Canons of the Fourth
General Council of Lateran, by omitting his statement that the
Canons seemed pleasing to some, and burdensome to others of the
Fathers assembled in Council; and so also with regard to the
testimony of Platina and Nauclerus, from which a very important
qualification must be left out altogether; Du Pin is strongly in
favour of the Canons, and Collier's evidence is as clear as
evidence can be he states, and very truly, that the Mazarine copy
of the Canons is coeval with the Council in which statement he is
borne out by. Labbe and Cossart, no incompetent judges in this
matter. Collier is particularly mentioned as repudiating. the THIRD
CANON, and this merely on account of an unguarded expression,
respecting its not being found in the Mazarine copy that the
expression was unguarded, the reader will easily perceive, by
inspecting the Canon itself, which is given as it stands in the
work of Labbe and Cossart; so far, however, was Collier from
repudiating it, that it is one of the Canons which he selects to
lay before his readers, and he is, moreover, at some pains to
explain its several clauses. Rigordus, who has been mentioned as
ascribing the Canons to Innocent rather than to the Council, says
nothing about the matter at all.
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