. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. OAEVED DOOR IN THE VATICAN CHARACTER OF INDULGENCES. 279 able to his divine goodness, he makes use of that, first of all,in the sacrament of baptism. They believe that he uses thesecond in the forgiveness which he grants to those who afterbaptism relapse into sin, he being in some measure compelledthereto, through the ingratitude of
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. OAEVED DOOR IN THE VATICAN CHARACTER OF INDULGENCES. 279 able to his divine goodness, he makes use of that, first of all,in the sacrament of baptism. They believe that he uses thesecond in the forgiveness which he grants to those who afterbaptism relapse into sin, he being in some measure compelledthereto, through the ingratitude of those who have abuhis first favors; for which reason they are to suffer sometemporal punishment, though the eternal be taken off. Inorder to satisfy the duties imposed upon them by theirli^ion, the Catholics are subject to certain penances, whichought to be performed on their parts with repentance andhumiliation ; and it is the necessity of these works of expia-tion, which obliged the primitive Church to inflict tipunishments upon penitents, that are termed canonical. When the Church, therefore, imposes those painful andlaborious penances upon sinners, and they undergo themwith patience and humility, it is called satisfaction; andwhen the Church shows any
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