CHAPTER X. 

 THE GREAT COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH. 



NI ce CONSTANTINOPLE EPHESUS CHALCEDON 



FIFTH AND SIXTH CONSTANTINOPLE ARIUS MACE- 



DONIUS — NESTORIUS EUTYCHIUS — MONOTHELITES. 



Dates of General Councils. 



a, d. 325. NICE. 



381. CONSTANTINOPLE. 



43I. EPHESUS. 



45I. CHALCEDON. 



553. CONSTANTINOPLE. 



'680. CONSTANTINOPLE. 



It was not long after the Church began to make 

 progress that her doctrines were misunderstood, 

 and then corrupted. 



Allusions are made in the New Testament itself 

 to the rise of false doctrines. The Epistles were 

 written partlv to correct errors which were rising 

 wherever men sought to add to the revelation 

 which God had made, and to explain it to suit 

 their own philosophy, 



