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Christ :” than which there cannot be a stronger declaration against
the doctrine of transubstantiation as well as against the worship of
images. It is true that the second council of Nice, in the year 787,
restored and established the worship of images, and the pope ratified
and confirmed it; but nevertheless great opposition was made to it
by several churches in the west. Charlemagne * held a council at
Francfort in the year 794, consisting of 300 bishops of various
nations, who condemned ‘equally the second council of Nice and the
worship of images. The Carolin books were also set forth under
the name and authority of that great monarch; and the doctrines
therein contained, of the sufficiency of the Scriptures, of the worship
of God alone, of prayers in the vulgar tongue, of the eucharist, of
justification, of repentance, of pretended visions and miracles, and
various other points, are such as a Papist would abhor, and a Pro-
testant would subscribe. Not to seek for farther instances, the
* British churches lamented and execrated the second council of
Nice; and the famous Albin or Alcuin wrote a letter against it,
disproving and refuting it by express authorities of Holy Scripture ;
which letter was transmitted to Charles the Great in the name of
the bishops and other great men of the kingdom. Even at Italy *
the council of Forojulio prescribed the use of no other creed but
that. of the apostles, so that they had no conception of the necessity
of so many additional articles, as have since been made by pope
Pius IV. and received by the church. Some even of the Italian
bishops assisted at the council of Francfort before mentioned, and
particularly Paulinus, bishop of Aquileia, bore a principal part
in it.
