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A64296	A discourse touching choyce of religion By Sr. Richard Tempest Baronet.	Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing T624A; ESTC R222145	32,156	173

against the day of wrath for without doubt these satisfactory punishments doe greatly recall us from sin and as it were with a certaine bridle restraine us and make penitents more cautious for the future they cure likewise the reliques of sin they take likewise away ill habits got by vitious living but contrary acts of vertues nor at any time is there a surer way in Gods Church to remove punishments then that men frequent these works with true griefe of mind and it draws to this that whilst we by satisfying suffer for our sins we are made conformable to Christ Jesus who satisfied for our sins enjoying also the most certaine earnest that if we suffer together with him we shall likewise be glorified together with him Neither is this our satisfaction such which we pay for our sins that it is not made by Christ Jesus for we who of our selves as of our selves can doe nothing yet he co-operating who strengthens us we can doe all things so man hath not whence he may glory but all our glorying is in Christ in whom we live and merit in whom we satisfie doing worthy fruits of pennance which have their force from him and are offer'd from him to the Father and by him are accepted of the Father It was ever held in the Church of God the ordinary means of the forgivenesse of sins and is so farre from being a cause to drive men from the Catholique Church that to enjoy the benefit of it they should come with humble minds and teares in their eyes to beg the comfort of this onely approved sure way for their pardon St. Augustine in his Enchirid. saith God hath given liberty to none to sin though by his pittying of us he blot out our sins if sitting satisfaction be not neglected How wholesome must it be for our minds Fruits Piety to discharge themselves to ayre our minds by confession to have the state of our soules judged of all men being partiall censurers of themselves and thence fitting Physicke prescribed after his inspection of our inward complexion what comforts are conveyed into our breasts in liew of all vitious affections or acts we part with thence in Confessions our pardon is confirmed in Heaven as it is granted here on Earth How many thicke and foggy selfe-delusions false opinions desperate feares ill grounded doubts doe all vanish from that soule that hath dispersed those clouds by clearenesse of Confession What recruits of graces spirituall satisfactions healthfull directions are acquired here is exercised an act of that most acceptable humility in throwing your selfe down at the Feet of Gods Embassador in detestation of your selfe exercising your Faith likewise in beleeving that Whose Sins they remit they are remitted this being the second table after shipwracke Purgatory and Praying for the Dead It is the generall confession of those who call themselves the Reformed that Prayer for the Dead was anciently used some few testimonies of which I le shew you St. Augustine in his Booke pro Mortuis writes That if no where it should be read in the Old Testament yet the authority of the Vniversall Church is not small which is so cleare in the custome of this where in the Prayers which the Priests poure out to their Lord God at the Altar a recommending of the dead hath place also And the same Father ad Laurentium in the Enchiridion There is a certaine manner of living saith he not so good that it doth not require these things after death nor yet so ill that these things may not profit him after death Aerias was condemned of the whole Church for condemning this One may perceive by the constant practice of the Church how these Texts in Scripture are to be understood of being neither pardoned in this World nor in the World to come And that other place concerning those who build hay and stuble upon the Foundation they shall be saved yet as by Fire Martyrdome saith Clemens Alexandrinus is a purgation of sinnes with glory And St. Augustine saith That the recitall of the names of Martyrs at the Altar is more that they may pray for us then that we may pray for them For the pains in Purgatory one cannot conceive how there should be a Purgatory without suffering pain Heare what Boethius saith a thousand yeares since But I pray saith he remaine there no punishments after this life yes great certainly saith he for some saith he I take to be exercised with bitter punishments Liber 4. others with element purgations The fruits pietie To a Skoffer there shall never want matter but as he saith Cave sed fiat nè Jocus iste Focus When St. Paul mentions tryall by fire it s blowne away with a hundred light Interpretations an Atheisticall spirit would quarrell with that expression of the damned gnashing their teeth which they say is an effect rather of cold then of fire But as a Father saith Heresie is not from the Scripture but from the sence of Scripture which the Church by the providence of God safely preserves It must rayse no small comforts in the minds of those who have parted with what were their joy here to be able by devout Prayers to recommend them to a more advanced state of Joy It doth inlarge the subject of our charity whilst death it selfe doth but quicken our devotion for our Friends parting with them as men not without hope It sweetens our passage hence being not out of the pertaking of the benefit of Prayers Almes and the good Works of those we leave behind the Communion of Saints and for the effects that the opinions of postumous and after suffering must have upon the minds of men it must needs tend to the making the soule disgust these inferiour appetites and affections which breathe upon the soule an earthy vapor and foulenesse which it must be cleansed from with penall purgation before it can be admitted into those purer joyes to see God which only is granted to them that are cleane of heart The perverting and disordering the dispensation and application of Gods grace who though Gods merits be all-sufficient and our Redemption compleat and the Divine Promises large yet thinke that notwithstanding all their life time their judgements have been abused with the too great esteeme of the empty delights and glories of the world their wills following the impulse of carnall pleasures nor any Celestiall sparke ever kindling their affections yet by a swimming fancy in the head that Christ hath dyed for them thinke they shall presently jumpe into Paradise It is a merry conceit so was it of that Foole That thought that all the ships that came into the Harbor were his owne If we suffer together with him we shall likewise be glorified with him was held to be the surest earnest of Everlasting Joy Of Free-will He who hath made you without your selfe will not save you without your selfe saith a Father God is the way means and end all