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souls are for a time detained, who depart this life after their deadly sins
have been remitted as to the stain and guilt, and as to the everlasting
pain that was due to them; but who have on account of those sins still
some debt of temporal punishment to pay; as also those souls which
leave this world guilty only of venial sins.”—Catholic Belief (1884
ed.; Imprimatur Archbishop of New York), page 196.
See also K. R. Hagenbach, Compendium of the History of Doc-
trines (T. and T. Clark ed.) vol. 1, pp. 234-237, 405, 408; vol. 2, pp.
135-150, 308, 309; Charles Elliott, Delineation of Roman Catholicism,
B. 2, ch. 12; The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12, art. “Purgatory.”
Page 59. Indulgences.—For a detailed history of the doctrine of
indulgences see Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papacy From
the Great chism to the sack of Rome (London: Longmans, Green and
[684]
Co., 1911), vol. 5, pp. 56-64, 71; W.H. Kent, “Indulgences,” The
Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 7, pp. 783-789; H. C. Lea, A History of
Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church (Philadel-
phia: Lea Brothers and Co., 1896); Thomas M. Lindsay, A History
of the Reformation (New York; Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917), vol.
1, pp. 216-227; Albert Henry Newman, A Manual of Church History
(Philadelphia: The American Baptist Publication Society, 1953), vol.
2, pp. 53, 54, 62; Leopold Ranke, History of the Reformation in Ger-
many (2d London ed., 1845), translated by Sarah Austin, vol. 1, pp.
331, 335-337, 343-346; Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920), pp. 23-25, 66.
On the practical outworkings of the doctrine of indulgences during
the period of the Reformation see a paper by Dr. H. C. Lea, entitled,
“Indulgences in Spain,” published in Papers of the American Society
of Church History, Vol. 1, pp. 129-171. Of the value of this historical
sidelight Dr. Lea says in his opening paragraph: “Unvexed by the
controversy which raged between Luther and Dr. Eck and Silvester
Prierias, Spain continued tranquilly to follow in the old and beaten
path, and furnishes us with the incontestable official documents which
enable us to examine the matter in the pure light of history.”
Page 59. The Mass.—For the doctrine of the mass as set forth at
the council of trent see The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent
In Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 2, pp. 126-139, where
both Latin and English texts are given. See also H. G. Schroeder,