Notes
[1] "To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." (1 Cor. vii. 2.)
[2] A silver box containing consecrated bread, which is believed to be the real body, blood, and divinity of Jesus Christ.
[3] And remark that all their religious authors who have written on that subject hold the same language. They all speak of those continual degrading temptations; they all lament the damning sins which follow those temptations; they all entreat the priests to fight those temptations and repent of those sins.
[4] He is dead long ago.
[5] By the word penitents, Rome means not those who repent, but those who confess to the priest.
[6] He died many years after when at the head of the Laval University.