Councils | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1858

Councils.

Dr. Jortin says, "They have been too much extolled by Papists, and by some Protestants. They were a collection of men who were frail and fallible. Some of those councils were not assemblies of pious and learned divines, but cabals, the majority of which were quarrelsome, fanatical, domineering, dishonest prelates, who wanted to compel men to approve all their opinions, of which they themselves had no clear conceptions, and to anathematize and oppress those who would not implicitly submit to their determination."—Jortin's Works, Vol. vii, charge 2.