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 338 PINiN CEOiTtSI' i CTIOt. [Boi El. (if the whoe pminhment, is altogether false, and contrary to the word of Cod." "It is agreeable to the divine goodness that our 8ins should not be forg/ven without satisfaction." "These sat/sfaetory penances tend powerfully to preserve and restrain penitents from sin." "When, in miig satisfaction, we suffer for our sins, we are conformed to Christ Jesus, who has satisfied for our ofi'ences, and from whom is all our sufficiency." "Our satisfaction which we make for our offences is not otherw/se to be regarded than as being through Christ Jesus; 80 that man has nothing to glory in, but all our glorying is in Christ, in whom we live, in whom we merit, in whom we make satisfaction, bringing forth fruit8 worthy of penance, which from him derive their value, by him are offered to the Father, and through him are accepted by the Father." And finally, at the conclusion of the chapter, the council says: "Nor has any CathoI/c ever supposed that the efficacy ot  the merit an(l satisfaction of our Lord Jesus Christ is obscured, or /n the least degree d/minished, by these our works of 8arisfaction." In the ninth chapter the council declares: "We are able to make smisfaction to Cvod the Father through Christ Jesus, not only by punish- ments voluntarily endured by us as chastisements for sin, or imposed at the pleasure of the priest according to the degree of the offence, but also by temporal pa/ns inflicted by God himself, and by us patiently borne.*' But to present this point in a still clearer view, we give the canons ordaJned by the council on this topic. "Canon 12. Whoever shall a/13rm that the entire punishment is always remitted by God, together with the guilt, and that therefore .pen/tents need no other satisfaction than faith, whereby they appre- �bend Christ, ho has made satisfaction for them; let him be accursed. "13. Whoever shall arm that we can by no means make satisfac- tion to God for our sins, through the merits of Christ, as far as the temporal penalty is concerned, either by punishments inflicted on us y him, and patiently berne, or enjoined by the priest, though not un- eftaken of our own accord, such as fastings, prayers, alms, or other works of piety, and therefore that the best penance is only a new life; let him be accursed. "14. Whoever shall affirm that the satisfactions by which penitents redeem their sins through Jesu8 Christ are no part of the service of (, but, on the contrary, human trad/tion8 which obecure the doctr/ne of grace and the true worship of God, and the benefits of the death o/ Christ; let him be accursed. * �' 15. Whoever shall affirm that the keys are tv'eu to the church to loose only, and not also to bind; and that therefore, when priests ira- dPOee pun/hments on those who confess, they act in oppoe/fion to the ea/gn of the keys, and agailist the institution of Christ; and that it h �Rction that, _by virtue of the keys, when the eternal lmnishment is taken away, the temporal pun/ahment reinabra to be endured; let !;m ,, C, mm, 11. 8i qub dixerit, totem pmnmn einml cent cu rein/if/semper & Dee, ut/ofactionemque pmnitentium non ease -tim qum tldem, qut upprmt Chrbtum pro eb satirecite; anathema it, 13. 8i quis dixerlt, pro peccatt8, quoad profram temporalera, Minire6 Dee p=  merit, uatbert poRb ab es Jnfietb, et lttefr mr vd a merdo

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