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''The guilt of sin, or pain eternal due to it, is not remitted by that dispensation of mercy which in the Catholic Church is called an Indulgence; but such temporal punishment only as, in the order of divine justice, may remain due after the guilt has been remitted.

Matt. xvi. 19. “ Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.”-Ibid. xviii. 18.—The same power is given to the rest of the Apostles, which, in chap. xvi. had been given to Peter alone.1 Cor.v. 3, 4, 5.—St. Paul excommunicated the man guilty of incest in the following words: “I, indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that has so done ; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—But in his second epistle (ii. 4, 5, and seqq.) he thus addresses them concerning the same person : “ Out of much affliction, and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be made sorrowful, but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you. And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all. To him that is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, that is given by many: so that con-