10. That" they who take from the number of sacraments, and who deny their efficacy to confer grace, are to be treated as heretics. This decree treats of each sacrament in detail.
11. That the necessity of the sacrifice of the mass is sup- ported by several passages of Holy Scripture, especially by Luke xxii. That this holocaust, this victim for sin, this contintud sacrifice, is the "pure offering" of which the prophet Malachi speaks.
12. After refuting the opinions of Luther upon the sub- jects of purgatory and of prayer for the dead, this decree goes on to state that, after baptism, the guilt of sin being remitted, there still remains the temporal penalty to be paid, so that sinners may yet be compelled to expiate their faults in the other world, and that it is a salutary custom to ofler the holy sacrifice for the dead.
13. Ccmcernint; the worship of saints, they declare it to be firmly established in the Chmdi that the saints hear our prayers, that they are alive to our sorrows, and feel ioy in seeing us happy ; and that Holy Scripture proves this.
14. Declares that it is not idolatry to venerate images; that the intention is to honor them whom they rejire- sent, and remind us of and make us imitate their holy actions.
15. That man's free-will does not exclude grace; that the latter is not irresistible; that God does predestinate us and choose us, but that he will glorify those only who' make their calling and election sure by good works.
16. That faith in uo wise excludes works, especially
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those of charity ; aud that meu are not justified by faith ouly.
Then follows a list containing thirty-nine errors main- tained by the heretics of the time. Of the forty decrees on discipline the following may be noticed :
3-9. Kelate to persons to be admitted to holy orders or to any beuettces, aud enact that they who are admitted to holy orders without beiug propeily qualified are to be suspended until they are sufficiently instructed.
By canon 11 curates are compelled to residence, aud to instruct their parishioners.
In 10 care is directed to be taken with the psalmody, aud all jn-ofane tunes upon church-orgaus were to be scrupu- lously avoided.
33. "Forbids priufins; the Holy Scriptures and works of the fathers without the consent of the diocesan.
34. Orders all persons to brins; all bonks in their pos- session relating to faith or morals to their bishop for ex- amination.
36. Of proper persons to be licensed to preach.
See Labbe, Cone, xiv, 432.
30. March 13, IGI'2, a council convened, and was pre- sided over by cardinal du Peron, archbishop of Sens. The book of Edmund Kicker concerning the ecclesiasti- cal power was condemned. See Labbe, Cone, xv, 1G28.
Paris Manuscript. The only uncial MS. of the New Testament thus known consists of two fragments in the National (formerly Royal, later Imperial) Library at Paris (appended to No. 314), usually designated as W of the Gospels (formerly Codk.x Regius), and contain- ing Luke ix, 34-37 ; x, 12-23. They belong to the 8th centur3% They have been published by Tischendorf, Monum. Sacra Inedita (184(5), who regards them as originally forming part of the same MS. to which the Naples fragment (W*) belonged. — Tregelles, in Home's In/ rod. iv, 204; Scrivener, Introd.to N. T. p. 117. See Manuscuipts, Biblic.vl.
Paris Protestant Missionary Society.
This society was formed in 1822, under the title of " Societe des Missions Evangelit|ues de Paris." A meet- ing was held for the purpose at the house of S. V. S. Wilder, Esq., an American mercliant, then residing in Paris, which was attended by the presidents of the Re- formed and Lutlieran Consistories ; by other pastors, with lay members of the two churches; by various foreign Protestants then in Paris, among whom were Rev. Daniel Wilson, Rev. S. S. Wilson, and Rev. Jonas King, and by Messrs. Cook and Croggon, Weslej-an mis- sionaries then in France. One object of the society was declared to be to enlighten the public mind, through the press, as to the character and importance of the different missions of Protestant Christians among the heathen ; and another to establish an institution for young persons recommended by the different mission- ary societies, to whom it might be necessary to study some of the Oriental languages. Rev. Jonas King, be- ing then in Paris, and having received an invitation from Rev. Mr. Fisk, after the death of liis associate. Rev. Mr. Parsons, to join him in the mission to the Holy Land, the new society assumed, for a given period, his support. The committee issued an address, setting forth the object of the society, and soliciting contribu- tions. They also established the monthly Concert of Prayer.
Subsequently this society directed all its efforts to Southern Africa, where their missions have been very energetically and successfully prosecuted to the present time. They have thirteen stations, among several dif- ferent tribes, with fourteen missionaries, and a large number of native assistants, and about thirteen hundred communicants. See South Akuica.
Paris Sanhedrim. See Parisian Sanhedrim.
Paris, Francois (1), a French ascetic author, was born at Chantillon. in the neighborhood of Paris, about the middle of the 17th centur3^ He died in 1718, at an advanced age. He was a servant in the house of Varct, grand-vicar of Sens, where, evincing great tal- ents, he was educated for hoi}' orders liy his master, and was presented to the living of St. Lambert, near