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"Decree XII.
"We believe the Catholic Church to be taught by the Holy Spirit. For he
is the true Paraclete, whom Christ sendeth from the Father, to teach the
truth, and to drive away darkness from the minds of the Faithful. The
teaching of the Holy Spirit, however, doth not immediately, but through
the holy Fathers and Leaders of the Catholic Church, illuminate the
Church. For as all Scripture is, and is called, the word of the Holy
Spirit; not that it was spoken by Him through the Apostles and Prophets; so also the Church is taught indeed by the Life-giving Spirit, but through the medium of the holy Fathers and Doctors (whose rule is acknowledged to be the Holy and OEcumenical Synods; for we shall not cease to say this ten thousand times); and, therefore, not only are we persuaded, but do profess as true and undoubtedly certain, that it is impossible for the Catholic [Orthodox] Church to err, or at all to be deceived, or ever to choose falsehood instead of truth. For the All-holy Spirit continually operating through the holy Fathers and Leaders faithfully ministering, delivereth the Church from error of every kind.
Decree XIII.
"We believe a man to be not simply justified through faith alone, but through faith which worketh through love, that is to say, through faith and works. But [the notion] that faith fulfilling the function of a hand layeth hold on the righteousness which is in Christ, and applieth it to us for salvation, we know to be far from all Orthodoxy. For faith so understood would be possible in all, and so none could miss salvation, which is obviously false. But on the contrary, we rather believe that it is not the correlative of faith, but the faith which is in us, justifieth through works, with Christ. But we regard works not as witnesses certifying our calling, but as being fruits in themselves, through which faith becometh efficacious, and as in themselves meriting, through the Divine promises, that each of the Faithful may receive what is done through his own body, whether it bee good or bad, forsooth."
CONFESSION OF DOSITHEUS. SYNOD OF JERUSALEM 1672 AD Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present. Third Edition, Edited by John H. Leith, Pemberton Professor of Theology, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1982.
"We believe the Catholic Church to be taught by the Holy Spirit. For he
is the true Paraclete, whom Christ sendeth from the Father, to teach the
truth, and to drive away darkness from the minds of the Faithful. The
teaching of the Holy Spirit, however, doth not immediately, but through
the holy Fathers and Leaders of the Catholic Church, illuminate the
Church. For as all Scripture is, and is called, the word of the Holy
Spirit; not that it was spoken by Him through the Apostles and Prophets; so also the Church is taught indeed by the Life-giving Spirit, but through the medium of the holy Fathers and Doctors (whose rule is acknowledged to be the Holy and OEcumenical Synods; for we shall not cease to say this ten thousand times); and, therefore, not only are we persuaded, but do profess as true and undoubtedly certain, that it is impossible for the Catholic [Orthodox] Church to err, or at all to be deceived, or ever to choose falsehood instead of truth. For the All-holy Spirit continually operating through the holy Fathers and Leaders faithfully ministering, delivereth the Church from error of every kind.
Decree XIII.
"We believe a man to be not simply justified through faith alone, but through faith which worketh through love, that is to say, through faith and works. But [the notion] that faith fulfilling the function of a hand layeth hold on the righteousness which is in Christ, and applieth it to us for salvation, we know to be far from all Orthodoxy. For faith so understood would be possible in all, and so none could miss salvation, which is obviously false. But on the contrary, we rather believe that it is not the correlative of faith, but the faith which is in us, justifieth through works, with Christ. But we regard works not as witnesses certifying our calling, but as being fruits in themselves, through which faith becometh efficacious, and as in themselves meriting, through the Divine promises, that each of the Faithful may receive what is done through his own body, whether it bee good or bad, forsooth."
CONFESSION OF DOSITHEUS. SYNOD OF JERUSALEM 1672 AD Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present. Third Edition, Edited by John H. Leith, Pemberton Professor of Theology, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1982.
