This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...having been the instigator.64 Homicide and adultery -o Contra Celsum., iii, 51; P. G. xl, col. 988. Mxxviii, 10; P. G. xi, 529. -2ln Lev. (xvi), Horn, ix, 8; P. G. xii, col. 520. "In Jer. (li), Horn, xxi, 12; P. G. xiii, col. 541. - In Lev. (v.), Horn, iii, 4; P. G. xii, col. 429. are not unpardonable sins,85 for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...having been the instigator.64 Homicide and adultery -o Contra Celsum., iii, 51; P. G. xl, col. 988. Mxxviii, 10; P. G. xi, 529. -2ln Lev. (xvi), Horn, ix, 8; P. G. xii, col. 520. "In Jer. (li), Horn, xxi, 12; P. G. xiii, col. 541. - In Lev. (v.), Horn, iii, 4; P. G. xii, col. 429. are not unpardonable sins,85 for the Church can reconcile all sinners without exception." In the present life, "anyone who has left the assembly of the people of God can return to it by penance."06 Only those who sin against the Holy Ghost cannot be pardoned; not that the Holy Ghost is in any way superior to Christ, but because such sinners turn away from the counsels of the Spirit, Who dwells within them, and obstinately persevere in their sin. Every mortal sin of a baptized Christian is a sin against the Holy Ghost which merits eternal damnation, unless he repents of it with all his heart.67 To be pardoned his sin, the sinner must have recourse to those who have on earth the power of the keys, i. e., St. Peter and the bishops who share with him his dignity.68 When Origen speaks of unpardonable sins in his De Oratione, he does not imply that they are unpardonable in se, but unpardonable on account of the malice of unrepentant sinners or the laxity of priests who fail to dispose them to penance.69 He makes a clear-cut distinction between slight faults which are easily pardoned by the divine goodness, and those graver faults which require public penance. He looks upon every tendency to relax the severity of the ordinary penitential discipline as a menace to Christian morality, but he never 85 In Ex. (xv.), Horn, vi, 9; P. G. xii, col. 335. --In Zech. (xiv-8), Horn. Hi, 8; P. G. xiii, col. 694. -f In Joan. (i. 3), i, ii, 11; P. G. xi...
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