For the encouragement of the people, now connected with the mother country both by mutual affection and the mutual benefits of commerce, several favours and indulgences were granted them.
Many favours and indulgences had already been granted them from the Crown, for promoting their success and prosperity, and for securing the province against external enemies.
Bernhard Samson or Sanson, a seller of indulgences for Switzerland, came to Zurich to push his trade.
The whole practice ofIndulgences appeared to be what was most in need of reform.
A large portion of the populace was pleased, it is true, with the boundless indulgences thus offered to them; but the better part of the Roman people were indignant at the waste and extravagance which were every where displayed.
The extraordinary excesses recorded as having been habitual to him are more like the freaks of a madman than the indulgences of a voluptuary.
The indulgences and requisitions of the church," gravely continued Ingulfus, "are too often perverted.
The usual privileges and indulgences were accorded to the pilgrims, all tournaments during the three years appointed for the crusade, were prohibited, and universal peace was decreed, to all christian kingdoms for the same period.
Of these the most nefarious was the sale of indulgences for the perpetration of sin.
There were some preliminary skirmishes about indulgences and other minor matters, but very soon the real cause of dispute came plainly into view.
Indeed, as is well known, it was the sale of indulgences that provoked the Reformation--indulgences which are essentially a permit from God for the practice of sin, conditioned on the payment of a certain sum of money to the priest.
Indulgences were thus the immediate inciting cause of the Reformation, but very soon there came into light the real principle that was animating the controversy.
This shameful practice of selling indulgences for the commission of sin originated among the bishops, who, when they had need of money for their private pleasures, obtained it in that way.
Among these orders there was a sharp competition, each boasting of the superior value of its indulgencesthrough its greater influence at the court of heaven, its familiar connection with the Virgin Mary and the saints in glory.
At the southwest corner rises the Tour du Beurre, built (as was the same named tower at Bourges) from the moneys received out of the sale of indulgences to eat butter during Lent.
Like one of the cathedral towers at Rouen, it is named the Tour du Beurre because it was built with money received from the sale of indulgences to eat butter during Lent.
Innocent granted greater indulgences to them than to the expeditions into Palestine.
Bob cited the indulgences shown to other fellows by their parents in respect of phonographs, and Cat said that Tommy Eldridge always had his till tea-time.
Was it only his imagination, gathering suggestions from the atmosphere that his home had been that of self-denying endurance during his absence, and that his own selfish indulgences elsewhere were being actively forgiven for his sake?
In illustration of the indulgences as sold in Germany in the sixteenth century, we have the record of the doings of John Tetzel, agent of the pope, who traveled about selling forgiveness of sins.
John Tetzel boasted that he had saved more souls from hell by his indulgences than St. Peter had converted to Christianity by his preaching.
The indulgences were farmed to the highest bidders, and the undertakers employed such deputies to carry on the traffic as they thought most likely to promote their lucrative views.
Luther was conscientious in his conviction that the whole system of church penances and indulgences was contrary to scripture, reason, and right.
The people believed that the moment any person had paid the money for the indulgence he became certain of his salvation; and that the souls for whom the indulgences were bought were instantly released out of purgatory.
It is reported, moreover, that some of the abuses with which the selling of indulgenceshad been associated were disapproved by the Council of Trent, about the middle of the sixteenth century.
The granting of indulgences as exemptions from temporal penalties was at first confined to the bishops and their agents, and the practice dates as an organized traffic from about the middle of the twelfth century.
I then compare the cost of these indulgences with the cost of other indulgences not a whit more necessary, which no one ever questions a man's right to if he can pay for them.
The two indulgences will, perhaps, become equally necessary to the English world.
I roll back the tide of war right into the enemy's intrenched camp of comfortable customs; I attack the expensive and unnecessary indulgences of ladies and gentlemen who do not smoke.
Such indulgences are, in the first place, very expensive.
So much for indulgences in eating, drinking, and dress.
And further to stir up the zeal of both clergy and laity to this work the Bishop grants ample indulgences to such as follow the advice here given them.
The Bishop then concludes by granting indulgences to those who approach the Sacrament of Confession, and shall in these public devotions pray that God "may cause the severity of the plague to be stayed.
He urges them to unite in prayer that the plague may cease, and grants special indulgences "to such among you as, during this Chapter, or whilst returning to your homes, may chance to die.
Lincoln great indulgences at the hour of death, "since on their behalf a petition had been made to him which declared that the deadly pestilence had commenced in the said city and diocese.
But, more than this, indulgencesavail not only for the living, but for the dead.
See how boldly he nailed his theses againstindulgences to the church doors; how bravely he burnt the Pope's bull.
Then he added: "Dear friends, once a man came among you to sell you what he called indulgences; were they indulgences to commit sin, or indulgences to obtain pardon?
I would not change my privileges for those of Saint Peter in heaven, for I have saved more souls by my indulgences than the apostle by his sermons.
The Roman Pontiff, whose humblest servants created at pleasure the body of God Himself, sat as God in the temple of God, and claimed a spiritual treasure, from which he issued at will indulgences for the pardon of souls.
Observe what has been done: I stood up against the Pope, indulgences and other abominations, but without violence or tumults.
But Luther's leading principles are consistently opposed to the customary announcements of indulgences by the Church.
The immediate occasion of Luther's first great protest was the sale of indulgences by the Dominican monk John Tetzel.
On the other hand, the very impunity with which this traffic in indulgences had been maintained throughout German Christendom had served to increase from day to day the audacity of its promoters.
The pope, he holds, can only grant indulgences for what the pope and the law of the Church have imposed; nay, the pope himself means absolution from these obligations only, when he promises absolution from all punishment.
From early times the church authorities had granted indulgences or remissions of penances imposed on persons guilty of mortal sins, the condition being true penitence.
Still, it is not the indulgences themselves, if understood in the right sense, that he wishes to be attacked, but the loose babble of those who sold them.
Apart from such failings as those sensualindulgences so customary among the Romans, the reign of Commodus for the first three years was fairly respectable.
The Empire was again allowed to take care of itself, while the emperor occupied himself with abominable indulgences and murderous executions.
But this enthusiasm for morality was short-lived, and his censorship never interfered with his own indulgences or extended to his own family.
We took lodgings, Mr. Stowell undertaking to suit our tastes and pockets in this important matter, and claiming from the landlord several extra indulgences without additional cost, on the score of infirm health.
There are quite a number of special indulgences attached to the Sodality, whose genuine worth and practical tendencies may be faintly imagined from this short statement.
A couple of indulgences were tossed out, for which there is a scramble, and so it ends.
When three young artisans publicly exclaimed against the sale of indulgences and were seized and condemned and executed, great excitement arose.
His personal habits were gross and sensual; he became addicted to wine, and his body became bloated with his indulgences till he was likened to a fatted ox.
He had six brothers, and they all had a turn for fasting and self-mortifications, and retired to the desert and lived there, scorning the indulgences of ordinary life.
Such indulgences have a direct and powerful physiological effect.
Excessive indulgences often enfeeble the powers and often result in impotence.
Baluzii says: "No religious order had the distribution of so many and such ample indulgences as the Franciscans.
In place of fixed revenues, lucrative indulgences were placed in their hands.
We are told also that "the foregoing indulgences are applicable to the souls in purgatory.
The printed leaflet which accompanies our purchase tells us that "these rosaries, when sold or ordered, are blessed and enriched with the indulgences of the Rosary Confraternity and the papal blessing.
A number of people were going up in this way when we entered, pausing on each step to repeat a prayer, for which indulgences are granted by the Pope.
The best known, perhaps, is the shameless traffic in indulgences by Tetzel, which helped to precipitate the Reformation.
Whan thei drawen on to deye, And indulgences wolde have, Hir pardon is ful petit At hir partyng hennes, That any mede of mene men For hir motyng taketh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indulgences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
