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"Well, then, what do you require besides the general conditions before recited?" "I require, my lord, that Normandy should be given to Madame de Longueville, with five hundred thousand francs and full absolution.
It lays down the rule that whoever, without permission from any ecclesiastical authority, summons any ecclesiastical persons to a lay tribunal and compels them to attend publicly such a court, incurs instant excommunication. The excommunication is automatic, and absolution from it is specially reserved to the Roman Pontiff.
They were easily induced to believe that the usual Church penances, and ample Church gifts, would suffice for the insult offered to the relics: and, if they in so grave a case outstripped, in absolution, an authority amply sufficing for all ordinary matters, Harold, as king, might easily gain from the Pope himself that full pardon and shrift, which as mere earl, against the Prince of the Normans, he would fail of obtaining.
Our absolution by conscience is not infallible. I suppose that conscience is more reliable when it condemns than when it acquits.
He likewise begged the Prince of Parma to obtain for him absolution from his Holiness for this crime of pilfering the more so "as he was about to keep company for some time with heretics and atheists, and in some sort to conform himself to their customs."
Absolution freed the sinner from the deadly guilt which would otherwise have dragged him down to hell, but it did not free him from the penalties which God, or his representative, the priest, might choose to impose upon him.
I might as fairly hope for absolution of them from Ottilia as from offended laws of my natural being, gentle though she was, and charitable. Was I not guilty of letting her come on to me hoodwinked at this moment?
This is nothing but marvellous, speaking from a literary point of view, and absolution can but be granted a man who has written these admirable passages as a warning against all perils of education of this kind, as an indication to young women of the stumbling-blocks in the life in which they will be placed.
You did not appear to have any fear of the gibbets of Monk, or the Bastile of his majesty, King Louis XIV., but you will do me the favor of being afraid of me. Then listen; at the smallest word that shall escape you, I will kill you as I would a fowl. I have absolution from our holy father, the pope, in my pocket."
Hugh promptly gave the absolution, and then asked if the body were yet buried.
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