Indulgences.] observed ; lest, by excessive facility, ecclesiastical disci- And being desirous that the abuses which have crept the places and provinces where the said abuses are and corrected, it ordains generally by this decree, that prolific cause of abuses amongst the Christian people Sovereign Roman Pontiff, by whose authority and lect, each in his own church, all abuses of this nature, prudence that which may be expedient for the universal and to report them in the first provincial Synod ; that, the other abuses which have proceeded from supersti- bishops also, they may forthwith be referred to the has been derived be wholly abolished. But as regards committed, they cannot with convenience be specially prohibited, it commands all bishops diligently to col- The holy Synod enjoins on all bishops, and others Church shall be ordained ; that thus the gift of holy all evil gains for the obtaining thereof whence a most after having been reviewed by the opinions of the other pline be enervated. holily, and incorruptly. [Session 25, Decree concerning tion, ignorance, irreverence, or from whatsoever o'ther therein, and on account of which this honourable name INVOCATION OF SAINTS of indulgences is blasphemed by heretics, be amended source, since, by reason of the manifold corruptions in indulgences may be dispensed to all the faithful, piously,