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A COUNCIL of Rome under Pope LEO III.

THE Affair of Felix of Urgel, which had already been brought to Rome under Adrian, was examined there anew under Pope Leo the Third, in a Council of 57 Bishops, held * 1.1 in 799, of which Felix makes mention in his last Confession of Faith; and of which, some Fragments are extant.

Leo the Third relates in the first Action, how that Heresie, which was condemned by his Pre∣decessor Adrian, was renewed, and began to spread.

In the 2d he describes, how Felix, having been condemned at Ratisbone, had after that retra∣cted his Error at R••me, and made a solemn Promise upon St. Peter's Tomb,

That he would no more call Jesus Christ the Adoptive Son of God, but did believe and call him His own proper Son.

He adds, That since that time he had relapsed into his Error, and would not sub∣mit himself to the Judgment of the Council of Franckfort, assembled by the Order of King Charles, which had condemned his Error, and had threatned with Anathema those that maintain'd it, if they persisted in it. That not yielding to this Judgment in the least, he had written against Albinus, a Book full of Blasphemies and Errors, more horrid than those he had delivered heretofore.

In the 4th Action, the Pope representeth it as a Thing necessary, That those that are in an Er∣ror be exhorted again to endeavour to Reclaim them; and he anathematizes Felix of Urgel, if he will not abandon the Heretical Doctrine which he teaches, viz. That Jesus Christ is the Adopted Son of God.

Notes

• * 1.1

  C••unc••l of Rome, un∣der Pope Leo III.