CHAPTER IX.

_Internal Causes.--Continued_.

Third specific cause: "Unauthorized changes in church organization

and government."--Early form of church government.--Equality of the

bishops.--Origin of synods or church councils.--Bishops of Rome

claimed supremacy.--Title of Pope assumed.--Secular authority

asserted by the Pope.--Indulgences or pardons.--Infamous doctrine of

supererogation.--The traffic in indulgences.--Tetzel the papal

agent.--Copy of an indulgence.--The sin of blasphemy.--

Scripture-reading forbidden to the people.--Draper's arraignment of

the papacy.

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