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40481 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 421.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… loftiest spiritual pretensions, pretensions which, in their language at least, might have appalled Hildebrand or Innocent III, but almost all contemporary …
40482 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 424.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of spiritual interference, especially when agreements were customarily confirmed with the sanction of the oath; and the cure of souls implied a perpetual …
40483 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 425.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… that “spiritual penalties alone could be inflicted” in cases of offenses of the clergy. When a cleric had ruined a gentleman’s daughter, and to protect himself …
40484 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 425.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… more spiritual metaphor when he declared that the priestly power was as superior to the secular as the soul of man was to his body; and he summed up his estimate …
40485 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 426.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the spiritual power dominant over the temporal. The affection of the populations was no longer attracted by the graces and loveliness, of Christianity …
40486 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 426.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… than spiritual development. The immunities and privileges of the Church, and the enlargement of its temporal acquisitions were objects held more at heart …
40487 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 426.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… absolute spiritual despotism which had become established. In wise and devout hands it might elevate incalculably the moral and material standards of …
40488 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 429.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the spiritual warriors, was compensated for by their seeking to kill the souls as well as the bodies of their foes. This was especially the case in Germany …
40489 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 434.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the spiritual jurisdiction was the source of the greatest profit to the prelate and of the greatest misery to the people. Even in the temporal courts, the …
40490 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 437.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their spiritual direction. A purchased benefice was naturally regarded as a business investment, to be exploited to the utmost profit, and there was little …
40491 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 441.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their spiritual guides.
40492 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 445.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the spiritual courts, which were naturally partial in his favor, even when not venal, so that justice was scarce to be obtained by the laity. That such, in fact …
40493 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 449.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… all spiritual vitality, replacing its essentials with a dry and meaningless formalism. It was not that men were becoming indifferent to the destiny of their …
40494 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 449.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… a spiritual punishment could be commuted to a corporal or to a pecuniary one, and the power to grant such indulgence was a valuable franchise to the Church …
40495 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 452.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… or spiritual condition of him who employed them, or of him for whom they were employed; and in the popular view the rites of religion could hardly be more than …
40496 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 468.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… only spiritually present in the sacrament; that prayers and alms profit not dead men; that purgatory is a mere invention; and that the Church is not made up …
40497 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 468.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… its spiritual function. Of austere and commanding virtue, irreproachable in his self-denying life, trained in all the learning of the schools, and gifted …
40498 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 469.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their spiritual functions, the enormous revenues which are continually flowing into their coffers. Let all this wealth, those lands, palaces, and hoards …
40499 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 470.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the spiritual enlightenment and conversion, in heart and life, of many of the people, one remarkable result of Arnold’s preaching in Rome was that universal …
40500 Ecclesiastical Empire, p. 479.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… to spiritual remedies. Thus the heretics who are called Catharins, Patarins, or Publicans, are so strongly fortified in Gascony, among the Albigenses, and …