The Great Controversy by Ellen White (Unabridged Version)

On the practical outworkings of the doctrine of indulgences during the period of the
Reformation see a paper by Dr. H. C. Lea, entitled, "Indulgences in Spain," published in Papers
of the American Society of Church History, vol. 1, pp. 129-171. Of the value of this historical
sidelight Dr. Lea says in his opening paragraph: "Unvexed by the controversy which raged
between Luther and Dr. Eck and Silvester Prierias, Spain continued tranquilly to follow in the
old and beaten path, and furnishes us with the incontestable official documents which enable
us to examine the matter in the pure light of history."
Page 59. The Mass.--For the doctrine of the mass as set forth at the Council of Trent see
The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent in Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, vol.
2, pp. 126-139, where both Latin and English texts are given. See also H. G. Schroeder, Canons
and Decrees of the Council of Trent (St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1941).
For a discussion of the mass see The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol 5, art. "Eucharist," by
Joseph Pohle, page 572 ff.; Nikolaus Gihr, Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Dogmatically,
Liturgically, Ascetically Explained, 12th ed. (St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1937); Josef
Andreas Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite, Its Origins and Development, translated
from the German by Francis A. Brunner (New York: Benziger Bros., 1951). For the non-
Catholic view, see John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, b. 4, chs. 17, 18; and
Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Doctrine of the Real Presence (Oxford, England: John H. Parker,
1855).
Page 65. The Sabbath Among the Waldenses.--There are writers who have maintained
that the Waldenses made a general practice of observing the seventh-day Sabbath. This
concept arose from sources which in the original Latin describe the Waldenses as keeping the
Dies Dominicalis, or Lord's day (Sunday), but in which through a practice which dates from
the Reformation, the word for "Sunday" has been translated "Sabbath."
But there is historical evidence of some observance of the seventh-day Sabbath among
the Waldenses. A report of an inquisition before whom were brought some Waldenses of
Moravia in the middle of the fifteenth century declares that among the Waldenses "not a few
indeed celebrate the Sabbath with the Jews."--Johann Joseph Ignaz von Doellinger, Beitrage
zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Reports on the History of the Sects of the Middle Ages),
Munich, 1890, 2d pt., p. 661. There can be no question that this source indicates the observance
of the seventh-day Sabbath.
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