The decree of
the Lateran council calls the Monothelites impious, execrable, wicked,
abominable, and even diabolical; and curses and anathematizes them to
all eternity.[******]
[* Bede, lib. ii. cap. 2, 4, 20. Eddius, sect.
12.]
[** Bede, lib. v. cap. 16, 22.]
[*** Bede, lib. iii. cap. 25. Eddius, sect. 12.]
[**** Spell. Concil. vol. i. p. 168.]
[***** Spell. Concil. vol. i. p. 171.]
[****** Spell. Concil. vol. i. p. 172, 173, 174.]
CHAPTER II.
The Saxons, from the first introduction of Christianity among them, had
admitted the use of images; and perhaps that religion, without some of
those exterior ornaments, had lot made so quick a progress with these
idolaters; but they had not paid any species of worship or address
to images; and this abuse never prevailed among Christians, till it
received the sanction of the second council of Nice.
EGBERT.
[Sidenote: 827.] The kingdoms of the Heptarchy, though united by a
recent conquest, seemed to be firmly cemented into one state under
Egbert; and the inhabitants of the several provinces had lost all desire
of revolting from that monarch, or of restoring their former independent
governments.
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