Homilies of the Most Distinguished Man D. Johann Eck against Luther and the Other Heretics, On the Seven Sacraments of the Church: Fourth Tome

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Original title: Homiliarum clarissimi viri D. Ioannis Eckii adversus Lutherum, et caeteros haereticos, De septem Ecclesiae sacramentis: tomus quartus A Latin homiliary — a collection of model sermons intended for reuse by preachers — forming the fourth tome of Johann Eck's declamatory works and devoted entirely to the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church: baptism, confirmation, the sacrament of the altar, penance, order, matrimony, and extreme unction. Announcing itself as directed against Luther and the other heretics, it opens with a dedicatory epistle and a first homily on the parable of the Good Samaritan, defines a sacrament as an external, sensible sign that efficaciously signifies and confers the grace of God by divine institution, reserves the power of institution to God alone, and then defends the sevenfold number by appeal to unwritten apostolic tradition and the constant custom of the Church, invoking the jurists' maxim that custom is the best interpreter of laws. Across seventy-seven numbered homilies, closing with a general conclusion, a register of homilies, and an alphabetical index, it combines catechetical instruction and pastoral casuistry (matter and form of baptism, preparation for confession, the seal of the confessional, satisfaction, the nuptial blessing, degrees of consanguinity and affinity) with sustained controversial theology drawing on Scripture, the Fathers, conciliar decrees such as Florence and Constance, papal decretals, liturgical rubrics, and Roman civil law, while attacking Lutheran, Zwinglian, and Anabaptist positions as novelties. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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HOMILIARUM DOCTISS. VIRI IOANNIS ECKII ADUERSUS QUOSCUNQUE... Johann Eck