To attribute to the Church the power of the keys, and then deny the force of her indulgences while admitting her absolutions.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
"If," continued Durtal, "in opposition to these sad prayers, these eloquent absolutions, we call up before us a marriage mass, all is changed.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
He exhorted and earnestly pressed him to abjure the heresies of which he stood convicted, by his own confessions and those of his brethren, respecting the absolutions pronounced by him in the chapters, and submit himself to the disposition of the church; but the Master declared that he had never been guilty of the heresies mentioned, and that he would not abjure crimes which he had never committed; so he was sent back to his dungeon.
"The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple"
Charles G. Addison