44. "For the work of charity makes charity increase, and renders a man more pious; whereas the indulgence does not make him better, but only gives him more self-confidence, and makes him more secure against punishment. 45. "Christians must be told that he who sees his neighbour want, and, instead of helping him, purchases an indulgence, purchases not the indulgence of the pope, but incurs the Divine displeasure. 46. "Christians must be told that if they have no superfluity, they are bound to keep what they have, in order to procure necessaries for their families, and not to lavish it on indulgences. 47. "Christians must be told that to purchase an indulgence is optional, not obligatory. 48. "Christians must be told that the pope having more need of prayer offered up in faith than of money, desires the prayer more than the money when he dispenses indulgences. 49. "Christians must be told that the indulgence of the pope is good provided they do not place their confidence in it, but that nothing is more hurtful if it diminishes piety. 50. "Christians must be told that if the pope knew of the extortions of the preachers of indulgences, he would rather that the metropolis of St. Peter were burned and reduced to ashes, than see it built with the skin, flesh, and bones, of his sheep. 51. "Christians must be told that the pope, as is his duty, would dispense his own money to the poor people whom the preachers of indulgences are now robbing of their last penny, were he, for that purpose, even to sell the metropolis of St. Peter. 52. "To hope to be saved by indulgences is an empty and lying hope even should the commissary of indulgences, nay, the pope himself, be pleased to pledge his own soul in security of it. 53. "Those who, on account of the preaching of indulgences, forbid the preaching of the word of God, are enemies of the pope and of Jesus Christ. 55. "The pope cannot have any other thought than this:--If the indulgence, which is the lesser matter, is celebrated with bell, pomp, and ceremony, it is necessary, _à fortiori_, to honour and celebrate the gospel, which is the greater matter, with a hundred bells, a hundred pomps, and a hundred ceremonies. 62. "The true and precious treasure of the Church is the holy gospel of the glory and grace of God. 65. "The treasures of the gospel are nets, which once caught the rich, and those who were at ease in their circumstances: 66. "But the treasures of indulgence are nets, in which, now-a-days, they catch, not rich people, but the riches of people. 67. "It is the duty of bishops and pastors to receive the commissaries of apostolic indulgences with all respect: 68. "But it is still more their duty to use their eyes and their ears, in order to see that the said commissaries do not preach the dreams of their own imaginations instead of the orders of the pope. 71. "Cursed be he who speaketh against the indulgence of the pope.