1817 Nov 25

Not Paul

II Doctrine

Ch In Jesus

Mary Magdalen

Error Cause

But under the religion, as modified by the religion of Paul in proportion as it

became more and more corrupted by the advantage taken of it to promote worldly

interests, the power of the spiritual guide came day by day through the course of

many centuries, to assume a more and more tangible and palpable shape, till at length

the exercise of it ripened into the shape designated by the name of the sale of

indulgences. Every sin, and its fine the service rendered by clearing the conscience

of the apprehension of future punishment of punishment in a future life on the score

of such /by reason of such/ sin had its fixt price. the more this system of taxation

approached to its maturity, the more palpable and distinctly liquidated was the

interest which the spiritual guide thus possessed in the multiplication of the number

of reputed sins, which each individual who regarded himself as capable of purchasing

exemption from punishment on the score in question on the terms in question, regarded

himself as having committed.