Morning Prayer & Litany (Pt.2)

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff cites apocryphal stories about Jesus.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff further comments on polygamy, virgins in Paradise and the injurious views on marriage and family.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff cites Ernest Renan (1823-1892) on Calvin, a famed French historian. Renan was a French Papist, later a sceptic. Renan gives Calvin his due.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch affords a recalibrative perspective on Henry VIII’s doubts, anxieties and final decision to be rid of his accursed marriage to Catherine Aragon, based on Leviticus 18-20. These were tedious and Continent-wide negotiations with the subtlest and most refined courts on the Continent—involving 160 contemporary scholars at 23 European universities resulting in a “lucrative source of consultancy fees.” Thus, Dr. Cranmer was involved as one voice in a sea of voices (41).

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff in 1.181, in one page, cuts loose with widespread and on-target cannon shots at Vatican 1. He refers to the fake donation of Constantine, interpolations in favor of Rome to the writings of the fathers (especially Cyprian and Augustine), the Gesta Liberii, the Liber Pontificalis, a series of pious fraudulencies and fictious letters clothing Rome with absolute and perpetual authority, interpolations to the 6^th canon of the Nicene Council claiming Petrine supremacy (that angered the Greeks and was vitiated by correct and widespread manuscripts), rising to the bold claims of Nicholas 1 (858-867), blossoming in the papal absolutism with the full vigor of Innocent III and Boniface VIII, all of which deceived even Thomas Aquinas, a claim that intoxicated duped adherents like Pio Nono, a papacy in the hands of dissolute women in the pornocracy (904-962), or, in the hands of a boy like Benedict 9 (1033). suffering a Papal schism (1378-1409) with 2-3 Popes excommunicating and cursing each other, followed by 3 15the century reformatory councils of Pisa, Constance, and Basel calling for reformation in head and members and citing the superiority of the Council to the Pope.

1994 CCC: the infallibilists and absolutists, nouns, verbal, grammar and all, gingerly but arightly teach on the Trinity.

Westminster Larger Catechism 146:

Q. 146. Which is the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.