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A77108	An exposition of the doctrine of the Catholic Church in matters of controversie by the Right Reverend James Benigne Bossuet ... ; done into English from the fifth edition in French.; Exposition de la doctrine de l'Eglise catholique sur les matières de controverse. English	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.; Johnston, Joseph, d. 1723.	1685 (1685)	Wing B3783; ESTC R223808	74,712	98

Doctrine of Justification Ibid. 13. and our Adversaries would be very unreasonable if they should not confess that this Doctrine suffices to teach Christians they ought to refer all the glory of their Salvation to God through JESVS CHRIST If the Ministers after this should go about to move questions about subtilties it is good to advertise them that it becomes them not now to be so scrupulous in our behalfs after having granted what they have done to the Lutherans and their own brethren concerning Predestination and Grace This their conduct towards them ought to have taught them in this matter to reduce themselves to what is absolutely necessary for the establishment of the foundations of Christian piety But if they could but once resolve to prefix these limits to themselves they would be presently satisfied and they would cease to accuse us of annulling the Grace of God by attributing all to our good works seeing we have shown them in such clear terms of the Council of Trent these 3 points so decisive as to this matter That our sins are pardoned us out of pure mercy for the sake of JESUS CHRIST That we are indebted for that Justice which is in us by the holy Ghost to a liberality gratis bestowed upon us and that all the good works we do are but so many gifts of his Grace And indeed we must acknowledge that the learned of their Party do not contend so much of late about this Subject as they did formerly and there are but few who do not now confess there ought not to have been a breach upon this point But if this important difficulty about Justification upon which their first Authors laid all their stress be not looked upon now as essential by the wisest persons amongst them we leave them to think what they ought to Judge of their separation and what hopes there would be of an union if they would but overcome their prejudice and quit the Spirit of contention SECT VIII Satisfactions Purgatory and Indulgences VVE must farther explicate after what manner we believe we can make satisfaction to God through his grace to the end we may not leave any doubt upon this matter uncleared Catholics unanimously teach that JESVS CHRIST God and Man was solely capable through the infinite dignity of his Person to offer up to God a sufficient satisfaction for our Sins But having satisfied superabundantly he could apply this infinite satisfaction after two manners either by an entire remission without reserving any punishment or else by changing a greater punishment into a less that is an eternal pain into a temporal This first manner being more compleat and more comformable to his goodness he makes use of it immediately in Baptism but we believe that he makes use of the second in the pardon he grants to those who fall after Baptism being carried in some manner to it by the ingratitude of those who have abused his first gifts so as they are to suffer some temporal pain tho the eternal be remitted It must not be hence concluded that JESVS CHRIST has not fully satisfied for us but on the contrary that having obtained an obsolute dominion over us by the infinite price which he has given for our salvation he grants us pardon upon what condition what law or with what restriction it pleases him We should be injurious and ungrateful to our Saviour should we dare to deny the infinite value of his merits under pretence that when he pardons us the sin of Adam he does not at the same time free us from all the consequences of it but leaves us still subject to death and so many other corporal and spiritual infirmities which this sin brought upon us If suffices that JESVS CHRIST has once paid the price by which we shall be one day entirely freed from the evils which overwhelme us it is our parts to embrace with humility and thanksgiving every part of his benefits by considering by what progress it pleases him to procure our deliverance according to that order which his wisdom has established for our good and for a more clear manifestation of his bounty and Justice Upon the like account we ought not to think it strange that he who has shown us so great mercy in Baptism should be more severe towards us after our having violated our holy promises It is just yes and beneficial to our salvation that God in remitting our sin together with the eternal pain which we deserved for it should exact of us some temporal pain to retain us in our duties lest if we should be too speedily freed from the Bonds of Justice we should abandon our selves to a temerarious Confidence abusing the facility of the Pardon It is then to satisfy this Obligation we are subjected to some painful works which we must accomplish in the Spirit of Humility and Penance and it was the necessity of these satisfactory works which obliged the primitive Church to impose upon Penitents those pains called Canonical When therefore she imposes upon Sinners painful and laborious works and they undergo them with humility this is called Satisfaction and when regarding the fervour of the Penitents or some other good works which she has prescribed them she pardons some part of that pain which is due to them this is called Indulgence The Council of Trent proposes nothing else to be believed concerning Indulgences Contin sest 25. Dec. d. Indulg but that the powe to grant them has been given to the Church by JESUS CHRIST and that the use of them is beneficial to salvation to which this Council adds That this power ought to be retained yet nevertheless used with moderation lest Ecclesiastical discipline should be weakned by an over great facility which shows the manner of granting Indulgences to regard discipline Those who depart this life in Grace and Charity but nevertheless indebted to the divine Justice some pains which it reserved are to suffer them in the other life This is what obliged all the Primitive Christians to offer up Prayers Alms deeds and Sacrifices for the faithful who departed in peace and communion of the Church Sess 25. de Purgator with a certain faith that they may be assisted by these means This is what the Council of Trent proposes to us to believe touching the Souls detained in Purgatory without determining in what their pains consist or many other such like things concerning which this Holy Council demands great moderation blaming those who divulge what is uncertain or suspected Such is the innocent and holy Doctrine of the Catholic Church touching Satisfactions which has been imputed to her as so great a crime If after this Explication those of the pretended Reform'd Religion accuse us of injuring the satisfactions of JESVS CHRIST they must have forgotten what we told them that our Blessed Saviour payed the full price of our Redemption that nothing is wanting in this price because it is infinite and how these remaining pains of which