THE VENAL
INDULGENCES AND PARDONS

OF THE

CHURCH OF ROME,

EXEMPLIFIED IN A SUMMARY OF AN INDULGENCE OF

SIXTUS IV.
FOR THE REPAIR OF A CATHEDRAL;

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMS CALLED CONFESSIONALIA,

APPLICABLE BOTH TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD;

AND

OBSERVATIONS CONFIRMATORY OF THE

AUTHENTICITY

OF THE
TAXÆ PENITENTIARIÆ.

WITH A PLATE.

BY THE REV. JOSEPH MENDHAM, M.A.

........ simpliciter dicendæ sunt indulgentiæ tantum valere, quantum
prædicantur : dummodo, &c. Summa Theologiae S. THOMÆ, Suppl.
Tertiæ Partis, Quæst. xxv., Art. ii., Conclusio.

Utinam liceret introspicere sensus vestros, recessusque ipsos men-
tis, quibus varias volvitis, atque initis obscurissimas cogitationes : repe-
riremus et vos ipsos eadem sentire, quæ nos. ARNOB. adv. Gentes, lib.
vi., § xi.

In avaritia fictis verbis de vobis negotiabuntur. BEATI Petri Epist.
Sec. ii., 3. Vers. Vulg.

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