This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839* edition. Excerpt: ...are condemned, the exactions prohibited, and the criminal is bound to pay double the amount of the exaction to the injured place or party. The next canon would be rather inconvenient to some Protestant churches in this city: and one was passed in stronger language at Triburia, condemning extortions ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839* edition. Excerpt: ...are condemned, the exactions prohibited, and the criminal is bound to pay double the amount of the exaction to the injured place or party. The next canon would be rather inconvenient to some Protestant churches in this city: and one was passed in stronger language at Triburia, condemning extortions for services, &c, at the burial of the dead, and on other occasions. The German Council, in Can XVI. calls it "a custom to be abhorred and avoided by all Christians, that of selling for a price the sepulture due to the dead." What would they say to $50 for leave to bury a corpse? This however is a digression, and one which I cannot now afford to follow up. My object was to show that although the abuses in granting indulgences increased to an alarming extent at this period the legislative body of the church neither countenanced nor defended the abuse, nor was it negligent in the reprehension, but it had not power to prevent what it condemned. At this council there sat the patriarchs of Constantinople and of Jerusalem: seventy Greek and Latin Archbishops, and four hundred and twelve bishops, besides a large number of abbots and other dignitaries. I shall now give from the Corpus Juris Canonici (Clem. Lib. V. Tit. IX. C. 2.) the decree of Pope Clement V. upon the subject, according to the proceedings of the council of Vienne in Dauphiny, where upwards of three hundred bishops were assembled in 131-1. The title of the decree is Abusionibus. "Desiring (as far as lies in-my power) to present the abuses which some questors of alms put forward in their preachings, that they may deceive the simple and extort gold from them by subtle or rather by deceitful ingenuity: since it tends to the danger of souls and the scandal of very many: ...
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Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo 7"-7�" tall; Cloth covers, blind stamped, worn, damp stained. Private book plate inside, bottom edge & upper corner of all pages damp stained. Paper age toned and foxing, but quite legible and not brittle. Richard Fuller, a Baptist minister in Beaufort and John England, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Charleston, exchanged a number of letters concerning their varying views. The letters were published in the newspapers of the age but here are gathered together into one volume. Bishop England is noted today for his support of full religious freedom, somewhat unusual for the time. Starr: Baptist Bibliography #Fo2024. Size: 12mo 7"-7�" tall. 276 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Religion & Theology; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.
