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Article THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. ← Page 8 of 8
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The Knights Templar.
confessed their crimes , and persisted in such confession , were acquitted , and set at liberty . Those who had never made a confession of such crimes , and Avho had none to retract , and who constantly maintained the legality of the receptions , were condemned to perpetual imprisonment , and
regarded as not reconciled . With respect to the others , who said to their judges , " We had yielded to the tortures of the rack , but we have retracted , and we do retract the false confessions that they had extorted from us , " the Council decided , that according to their first confessions , they declared
themselves heretics , that by the retraction of those confessions they fell into their former errors , they became heretics again , and consequently were to be considered as relapsed .
As heretics , but particularly as relapsed , they Avere condemned to be burned . And so they were . Thus they died , martyrs at least of the truth , of virtue , and of religion .
I have the satisfaction of contrasting Avith the injustice of this barbarous sentence the wise decision of the council of Rav ena , * which on the contrary , thought with reason , that such of the Ternplars as retracted the confessions which had been extorted by the rack , ought to be absolved .
( To be continued !)
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The Knights Templar.
confessed their crimes , and persisted in such confession , were acquitted , and set at liberty . Those who had never made a confession of such crimes , and Avho had none to retract , and who constantly maintained the legality of the receptions , were condemned to perpetual imprisonment , and
regarded as not reconciled . With respect to the others , who said to their judges , " We had yielded to the tortures of the rack , but we have retracted , and we do retract the false confessions that they had extorted from us , " the Council decided , that according to their first confessions , they declared
themselves heretics , that by the retraction of those confessions they fell into their former errors , they became heretics again , and consequently were to be considered as relapsed .
As heretics , but particularly as relapsed , they Avere condemned to be burned . And so they were . Thus they died , martyrs at least of the truth , of virtue , and of religion .
I have the satisfaction of contrasting Avith the injustice of this barbarous sentence the wise decision of the council of Rav ena , * which on the contrary , thought with reason , that such of the Ternplars as retracted the confessions which had been extorted by the rack , ought to be absolved .
( To be continued !)