(82) but OnlyAttrition and the,sacra°ment of Penance andAb- felution, (that is, repenteth only for fear of Hell, and would fin fsill if he durfi.) And though you may hope that thereare noCopies of the old Pardons yet to be Peen, or any of Tecelius Mer- chandife nowextant, yet the fure Hifroryofthem is com- mon, and'if you deny it, it will be proved to your shame. What a multitude of. Writers have better cited your prá.hticeand confuted it ? . But yet I remember (to do you right) that even Hilde -. brand himfelf (Greg. 7.) in a Roman Council faith, that [neither the Sacrament of Baptifm, nor Penance is of any force to pardon any impenitent Hypocrite,] which is well Paid and as for truePenitent Believers, we verily believe that they are pardoned ipfo jure by the Gofpel, as to de- flrulive or heIlifh Punifhment ; . and that every true Mi- nifrer bf Chrift may validly deliver this pardon minifre- rially, by true abfolution, in the 'Sacrament, and with- out it. But in what meajure God himfelf will remit tem- poral Chaflifements, few men can know till the event tell it them : And neither Pope nor Priefi can forgive with- out him ; nor know what God will remit, any more than anothèr man,mayknow, that is, byGods Word, and by the event;_ And again, I fay if it were in the Popes power (how- ever you may abfolve him fromBribery or the Love of Money) that : there would be more difference in point of bodily fuffering, between his Sub;easor Favourites and Other°°men, than was ever - yet perceived. Its policy therefore to confine the bufinefs to Purgatory, that no witnefsmay be able to difprove You add to the Charge, [That of ail Chrifl's Merits the Pope is the supreme Lord, to difpfe of them to the "living
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