The divine life in three treatises

but yet he will not therefore make such Ministerial acts effectual to the saving of unbelieving or unholy souls. Nay (because I have found many sensual ungodly people inclining to turn Papists, because with them they can have a quick and easy pardon of their sins, by the Pope, or by the Absolution of the Priest) let me tell such, that if they understand what they do, even this cheat is too thin to quiet their defiled consciences: For even the Papists School doctors do conclude, that when the Priest absolveth an impenitent sinner, or one that is not qualified for pardon, such a one is not loosed or pardoned in Heaven (Leg. Martin. de Ripalda exposit. Liber. Magist. li. 4. dist. 18. p. 654, 655. & p. 663, 664. dist. 20. Aquin. Dist. 20. q 1. a. 5. Suar. Tom. 4. in 3. p. disp. 52. Greg. Valent. Tom. 4. disp. 7. q. 20. p. 5. Tolet. lib. 6. cap. 27 Navarre. Notab. 17. & 18. Cordub. de indulg. li. 5. q. 23.) they deny not the truth of those words of Origen. Hom. 14. ad cap. 24. Levit. [Exit quis à fide, perexit de castris Ecclesiae etiamsi Episcopi Voce non abjiciatur: sicut contru interdum fit, ut aliquis non recto judicio eorum qui praesunt Ecclesiae, for as mittatur: sed si non egit ut mereretur exire, nihil laeditur: interdum enim quod for as mittitur, intus est; & qui foris est, intus videtur retineri:] And what he saith of Excommunication, is true of Absolution: An erring Key doth neither lock out of Heaven, nor let into Heaven. A Godly ⟨p. 275⟩Believer shall be saved though the Priest condemn him: and an unbeliever or ungodly person shall be condemned by God, though he be absolved by the Priest.

but yet he will not therefore make such Ministerial acts effectual to the saving of unbelieving or unholy souls. Nay (because I have found many sensual ungodly people inclining to turn Papists, because with them they can have a quick and easie pardon of their sins, by the Pope, or by the Absolution of the Priest) let me tell such, that if they understand what they do, even this cheat is too thin to quiet their defiled consciences: For even the Papists Schooldoctors do conclude, that when the Priest absolveth an impenitent sinner, or one that is not qualified for pardon, such a one is not loosed or pardoned in Heaven (Leg. Martin. de Ripalda exposit. Liber. Magist. li. 4. dist. 18. p. 654, 655. & p. 663, 664. dist. 20. Aquin. Dist. 20. q 1. a. 5. Suar. Tom. 4. in 3. p. disp. 52. Greg. Valent. Tom. 4. disp. 7. q. 20. p. 5. Tolet. lib. 6. cap. 27 Navar. Notab. 17. & 18. Cordub. de indulg. li. 5. q. 23.) they deny not the truth of those words of Origen. Hom. 14. ad cap. 24. Levit. [Exit quis à fide, perexit de castris Ecclesiae etiamsi Episcopi Voce non abjiciatur: sicut contru interdum fit, ut aliquis non recto judicio eorum qui praesunt Ecclesiae, for as mittatur: sed si non egit ut mereretur exire, nihil laeditur: interdum enim quod for as mittitur, intus est; & qui foris est, intus videtur retineri:] And what he saith of Excommunication, is true of Absolution: An erring Key doth neither lock out of Heaven, nor let into Heaven. A Godly