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prevalence of the Romish ritual over the Scotch and chap.British Wilfrid, hilltop of Lindisferne, ac-quired great merit, both with the court of Romeand with all the southern Saxons, by expellingthe quartodeciman schism , as it was called, fromthe Northumbrian kingdom , into which theneighbourhood of the Scots had formerly intro-duced it 14 \

Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, called,in the year 680, a synod at Hatfield, consistingof all the bishops in Britain 48 ; where was ac-cepted and ratified the decree of the Paterancouncil, summoned by Martin, against the heresyof the Monothelites. The council and synodmaintained , in opposition to these heretics, that,though the divine and human nature in Christmade but one person ; yet had they differentinclinations, wills, acts, and sentiments, and thatthe unity of the person implied not any unity inthe consciousness This opiqion it seems some-what diflficult to comprehend; and no one,unacquainted with the ecclesiastical history ofthose ages, could imagine the height of zeal andviolence , with which it was then inculcated. Thedecree of the Lateran council calls the Monothe-lites impious, execrable, wicked, abominable,

Cede, lib. 5. cap. 16. 22.

Ibid. lib. 3. cap. 25. Eddius, §. 12.

148 Spell. Cone. vol. 1. p. 168.

Ibid. p. 171.

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