America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Modern Version]

Page 59. Indulgences.--For a detailed history of the doctrine of indulgences see
Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papacy from The Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), vol. 5, pp. 56-64, 71; W. H. Kent, "Indulgences,"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 7, pp. 783-789; H. C. Lea, A History of Auricular Confession and
Indulgences in the Latin Church (Philadelphia: Lea Brothers and Co., 1896); Thomas M. Lindsay,
A History of the Reformation (New York; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), vol. 1, pp. 216-227;
Albert Henry Newman, A Manual of Church History (Philadelphia: The American Baptist
Publication Society, 1953), vol. 2, pp. 53, 54, 62; Leopold Ranke, History of the Reformation in
Germany (2d London ed., 1845), translated by Sarah Austin, vol. 1, pp. 331, 335337, 343-346;
Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920), pp.
23-25, 66.
On the practical outworkings of the doctrine of indulgences during the period of the
Reformation see a paper by Dr. H. C. Lea, entitled, "Indulgences in Spain," published in Papers
of the American Society of Church History, vol. 1, pp. 129-171. Of the value of this historical
sidelight Dr. Lea says in his opening paragraph: "Unvexed by the controversy which raged
between Luther and Dr. Eck and Silvester Prierias, Spain continued tranquilly to follow in the
old and beaten path, and furnishes us with the incontestable official documents which enable
us to examine the matter in the pure light of history."
Page 59. The Mass.--For the doctrine of the mass as set forth at the Council of Trent see
The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent in Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, vol.
2, pp. 126-139, where both Latin and English texts are given. See also H. G. Schroeder, Canons
and Decrees of the Council of Trent (St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1941).
For a discussion of the mass see The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol 5, art. "Eucharist," by
Joseph Pohle, page 572 ff.; Nikolaus Gihr, Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Dogmatically, Liturgically,
Ascetically Explained, 12th ed. (St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1937); Josef Andreas Jungmann,
The Mass of the Roman Rite, Its Origins and Development, translated from the German by
Francis A. Brunner (New York: Benziger Bros., 1951). For the non-Catholic view, see John
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, b. 4, chs. 17, 18; and Edward Bouverie Pusey, The
Doctrine of the Real Presence (Oxford, England: John H. Parker, 1855).
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