A letter to a protestant gentleman, upon the subject of absolution and indulgences, and in vindication of the Catholic church, by a Catholic layman [C.F. Larkin]. |
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Page 7 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences : And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 2 - May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by his authority, that of his blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of the most holy pope, granted and committed to me in these parts, do absolve thee, first from all ecclesiastical censures, in whatever manner they have been incurred, and then from all thy sins, transgressions, and...
Page 6 - Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven ; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.
Page 6 - Peace be unto you: as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 2 - I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.
Page 9 - ... to spend. The Westminster statutes expressly prohibit any boy being elected on the foundation, " who has, or at his father's death will inherit, a patrimony of above ten pounds...
Page 9 - ... unlettered, gothic invasion of all classic ground. Accordingly, we were severely reproved for pushing our inquiries into establishments, destined, it was said, for the education of the upper classes, while our instructions confined us to schools for the lower orders. Unfortunately, we no sooner looked into any of those institutions, than we found that this objection to our jurisdiction rested upon the very abuses which we were investigating, and not upon the real nature of the foundation.
Page 9 - For as often as we examined any establishment, the production of the charter or statutes proved that it was originally destined for the education of the poor — " One free schoolefor the instructing, teaching, maintenance and education of POOR CHILDREN and scholars,'" says the charter of the " Hospital and Free Grammar School in the CharterHouse.
Page 7 - I have power, and thou standest in need: in the next place, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 9 - ... charitable funds to their proper objects, worked upon the apprehensions of their weaker brethren, and made them cry out, that nothing was sacred from our inquisition, while certain secular abuses, cherished for convenience, rather than consecrated by time, were the only objects of their own veneration. Above all, advantage was taken of the romantic attachment which English gentlemen feel towards the academic scenes of their early life; and the generous natures of persons who had honoured those...