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of Rome, and with the Church universal, the real presence of our lord in the Sacrament. But the error of the Church of Rome consists in this, that seeking to be wise above what is written, she has attempted to explain what our lord concealed under a mystery, viz, the -manner of his presence: and in doing this, although she has indeed made out a standing miracle, if her account be true, she has destroyed the mystery; and the consequence of her error has been to bring her members at least into peril of Idolatry, This dogma of transubstan-tiation is equally unsupported by Scripture and by Tradition, for we know it as an indisputable fact that this error was first started in the eighth century; that it found its most able advocate in Pascasius Radbert, in the ninth century; and that when this error was first introduced, it was spoken of by Raban Maurus, the pupil of our countryman Alcuin, Archbishop of Mentz, as an error broached by some individuals " unsoundly thinking of late/' and by the contemporary divines of the Churches of England and Ireland it was strongly opposed. We know., moreover, that it was not authoritatively received even by the Roman Church till the fourth Lateran Council in the year 1215.
trent, Council of, denotes the Council assembled by Paul III. in* 1545, and continued by twenty-five sessions till the year 1563, under Julius III. and Pius IY. in order to correct, illustrate, and fix with perspicuity, the doctrine of the Church, to restore the vigour of its discipline, and to reform the lives of its ministers. The decrees of this council, together with the creed of Pope Pius IV. contain a summary of the doctrines of the Roman Catholics, it was at this Council that the Church of Rome incurred the guilt of authoritatively sanctioning heresy.
trental. A service of thirty masses for the dead, usually celebrated on as many different days.
trinity. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity.—There is but one living and true god, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions ; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity of this godhead there be Three Persons, of one substance, power, and