Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

182 POPERY CONDEMNLD BY
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would net: otherwise have done ; as a mother
" promises her child an apple to run al^road,
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which yet she does not give him, when he
" has gone her errand." But this he rejects as
a very dangerous opinion ;
because says he, " it
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is in plain terms to make the Church guilty
" of a notorious cheat *."
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No Pope,'* says Wesselus, a man highly
esteemed in
the Church of Rome, " can grant
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indulgence even for an hour ; and it is ridi-
" tulous to imagine, that for doing the same
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thing, an indulgence should be granted,
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sometimes for seven years, sometimes for 700
" or 7000, and sometimes for ever by a plenary
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indulgence^ There is not the least founda-
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tion in scripture for the distinction of remit-
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ting the fault and the punishment, upon
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which the doctrine of indulgence is grounded.
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Covetousness was the cause of their introduc-
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tion at first ; and though the Pope once swore
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to the French ambassador, that he did not
" know the corruption of the sellers of indul-
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genccs, yet, when he knew, he permitted
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rhem, and they became more extensive. God
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himself does not give plenary remission to
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ccntriiion and confession ; and therefore, the
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Pope can much less do it f-"
Jacobus Angulaiis, in his reply to Wesselus,
acknowledged; " That there is nothing in scrip-
* Suppl. Sam. CL25. art. 2. f Oper:i, p. 867.
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ture