lty to the penalty of
purgatory is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown
while the bishops slept. [Matt. 13:25]

13. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not
after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition.

13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are
already dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be released
from them.

14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the imperfect
love, of the dying brings with it, of necessity, great fear; and
the smaller the love, the greater is the fear.

15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say
nothing of other things) to constitute the penalty of purgatory,
since it is very near to the horror of despair.

16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ as do despair,
almost-despair, and the assurance of safety.

17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror would
grow less and love increase.

18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that they
are outside the state of merit, that is to say, of increasing
love.

19. Again, it seems unproved that they, or at least that all of
them, are certain or assured of their own blessedness, though we
may be quite certain of it.

20. Therefore by "full remission of all penalties" the pope means
not actually "of all," but only of those imposed by himself.

21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who
say that by the pope's indulgences a man is freed from every
penalty, and saved;

22. Whereas he remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which,
according to the canons, they would have had to pay in this life.

23. If it is at all possible to grant to any one the remission of
all penalties whatsoever, it is certain that this remission can
be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to the very fewest.

24. It must needs be, therefore, that the greater part of the
people are deceived by that indiscriminate and high-sounding
promise of release from penalty.

25. The power which the pope has, in a general way, over
purgatory, is just like the power which any bishop or curate has,
in a special way, within his own diocese or parish.

36. The pope does well when he grants remission to souls [in
purgatory], not by the power of the keys (which he does not
possess),[5] but by way of intercession.

27. They preach man[6] who say that so soon as the penny jingles
into the money-box, the soul flies out [of purg