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A20148	No parliament powder But shot and powder for the Pope. And for all his Cardinalles, Bishops, Abbots, Fryers, Monkes; the maisters and great doctours of Sorbonne. Sent to his vn-holynesse, and them all, for a newe-yeares gift. 1609.; Sac & pieces pour le pape de Romme, ses cardinaux & evesques. English	Denakol.; Philagathus, fl. 1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 6582; ESTC S118652	52,903	98

works of euery one and that they shall be saued by fire I Raymondus Preacher of the Papall Church will not oppose my selfe against the faith of Purgatorie Neuerthelesse I firmely do beleeue and without any doubt that God doth not vse to pardon sinnes by halfes But by his grace he either pardons all or none at all I doe not speake this as of my selfe for it is written and approued by the holy Canons according to the testimonie of the glosse on the Chap. Maiores causas de Baptismo eius effectu extra Where it is said that the great goodnes of God doth not pardon a part or moitie For when a man commeth to God with sighes and teares hee forgiueth all or els nothing The Apostles and Gods Church WE read that Sathan being come to tempt Christ in the wildernesse hee proposed testimonies to him out of holy Scripture expounding them falsely onely to deceiue him But hee that could answere him so well hath taught vs also to answere in his name and to render a reason of our Faith to all such as shall question vs therein Wherefore we say that that place in S. Matthew of the Prisoner if he will not agree with his aduersarie is vnderstood of the reconciliation and agreement that ought to be between such as are in strifes of Law and such like variances And so is it expounded by diuers holy Doctors without making any mention at all of Purgatorie As namely S. Ambrose Chrysostome Hyllarius and Theophylact. Touching that text which speaketh of the sinne against the holy Ghost S. Chrisostome in his Exposition thereof speaketh thus Because this sinne can not be said to be veniall in you therefore it shal be punished greiuously in you both in this life and that which is to come It is very friuolously done then to fordge a Purgatorie out of this testimonie which speaketh onely of the remission of the fault and not of the paine And your Purgatory is so much the rather inuented for the paine onely As for the Bookes of the Macchabees they are not authenticall nor receiued in the Hebrew Canon For they are numbred with the Apocripha As S. Augustine Hierome Gregory with the Councell of Laodicea who doe all confesse those Bookes not to bee authenticall neither haue they any authoritie to prooue any thing by that is in controuersie Moreouer if wee looke well into the sacred Scriptures it is very easie to be found that the fire of Purgatorie was first of all forged in the diuels Shop and he hath stretcht it out to the vttermost onely to annihilate the soueraigne vertue and merite of Christs most precious blood The Pope and his Church WE haue three euident witnesses in the Scripture that doe make the fire of Purgatorie most certaine to vs. The first is where it is written of the prisoner who not beeing accorded and agreed with his aduersarie should neuer be suffered to depart out of prison vntill he had fully satisfied and payd the vtmost farthing Which cannot otherwise be vnderstood but onely of the prison of Purgatory wherein full satisfaction is to be made before any parting thence will be permited Moreouer the sinne against the holy Ghost is neuer pardoned in this worlde nor in the worlde to come Ergo it followeth that some sinne is to be pardoned in the other world Lastly the authenticall booke of the Macchabees doth say that it is an holy and wholesome thing to pray for the dead to the ende that they may bee deliuered from their sinnes Behold here how Purgatorie is diuinely approued and by long and auncient Custome receiued into our Mother holy Church Wherefore all these being well considered there is not any doubt to be made thereof But rather wee ought to pay vnto God that hee would saue vs by this holy fire of Purgatorie Out of which we shall be very soone deliuered by the celebration of Masses Anniuersaries Oblations Vigils Commendations Prayers and Almes deeds Amen The Apostles and Gods Church K WE wil yet further testifie our former speeches by the Expositions of many ancient Doctours and Fathers that neither confesse or make any mention of this Purgatorie fire but haue written and taught the contrary Especially Saint Augustine writing to Macedonius Epist 54. These are his words There is no other place for correction of manners but in this life For after it is ended euery one shall receiue what he hath purchased in this worlde there the mercy of God remaineth for them that haue bin heere repentant But in the world to come penitence doth profite nothing at all And in the 13. Booke of the Citie of God and 9. Chapter he writeth thus The soules of the good being seuered from their bodyes are in rest and no other doubt is to be made thereof But the soules of the wicked are punished vntill such time as their bodies shall bee raysed and then the good shall goe to life eternall and the others to euerlasting death S. Cyprian was not of any contrary opinion for hee speakes thus Wee are not to thinke that the death of the wicked should be of like forme and condition to that of the good The good are called to rest and comfort the vniust to paines and grieuous torments On a sudden is saftie giuen to the faithfull and torments to the vnbelieuers Moreouer these holy Doctours and Fathers S. Ambrose Hierome and Chrysostome doe contradict not any point of their precedent opinions but are all of the same consent with Epiphanius speaking thus It is neither Fasting nor Almes penitence nor iustice good or euill that after death doth hurt or helpe For then there is no further place for repentance nor any more effects of satisfaction Behold then what the faithfull Church doth beleeue with her learned Doctours and Fathers To hold worthlesse their iudgement it were impious and shamefull or to condemne and curse them for Heretiques Is not this then honor done to Saints when thus wee remember to imitate their example To conclude then the Councell held at Toledo can testifie if we doe ill in reiecting prayers for the dead For it was there forbidden as vnprofitable and fruitlessely inuented The Pope and his Church with the Councell of Toledo NOtwithstanding all that which hath been sayde before wee hauing assembled our selues at the Councell of Toledo haue ordained and decreed this present ordinance which wee will haue to be firmely kept and established for euer as followeth We command that such as depart out of this life by the diuine vocation shal be caryed to the earth with Psalmes sung before them and other Songs of the Singers For wee doe altogether forbidde those prayers at Funerals which were wont to be comonly sung for the dead It shall therefore suffice that you giue to the dead bodyes of Christians the seruice of diuine Songs in hope of their resurrection This is written in the 3. 22.

this purpose especially by S. Chr●sostome and S. Augustine who doe manifestly speake thus Although wee are full of all euils poore and miserable sinners yet notwithstanding we haue no need of any Patrons or Aduocates but onely Iesus Christ by whom our prayers are agreeable before God S. Augustine teacheth vs to honour the Saints as creatures and vessels of honour without attributing any thing else to them in matters that appertaine to God onely he saith We ought by no meanes to direct our prayers to the Saints which are in heauen because they can bee no searchers of our hearts neither haue they any knowledge of our necessities For it is impossible that they should in any thing bee helpfull to the liuing when they know nothing that is done in this life Consequently them we say that we ought not to dedicate Temples Altars or other things to Saints for we cannot be made happy or blessed by them Then the summe of all is that as we haue but one onely euerliuing God who will not giue his glory vnto any other Euen so wee haue but one onely Sauiour Mediatour and Aduocate Iesus Christ by whom and in whom we beg and haue all things which are needfull for vs. The Pope and his Church IT is ordained and decreed by the great high Bishop Head of our holy Mother the Church that not only Iesus Christ is our Mediatour But likewise the blessed Virgin Marie and all the Saints that are in heauen In regard whereof we ought to pray and inuoke their helpe in our wants and necessities as our Mediatours and Intercessours betweene God and vs. For by their prayers and merites we shall obtaine heauen Hee that hath any affaires towardes a Prince prepareth himselfe first to some person of his house to deliuer the message for him because by himselfe alone he cannot be heard Euen so the blessed Virgin Marie our Aduocate and all the Saints of heauen doe cary our petitions to God and humbly intreat him for our necessities and God doth neuer refuse the Saints for their merites are of great vertue and efficacie For in so doing we can neuer faile As it is written in the title De reliquis venerat Sanctor And in many other places of the holy right Canon And especially the prayer of my Lord S. Claude is very singuler and acceptable to God after the holy prayers of the blessed Virgin Marie our principall Aduocatesse I Iohn Gerson will neuer gain-say that which I haue written in my first part of the Examination of doctrines speaking thus The first truth should bee so firme that any simple man not authorised may bee thereby so excellently instructed in holy Letters That a man ought rather to beleeue in his assertion in the cause of instruction then in the doctrine of the Pope For it appeareth that a man ought rather to beleeue the Gospell then the Pope If then such a man doe teach some veritie to be contained in the Gospell concerning whether the Pope doth or may greatly erre it is manifest whose iudgement ought to be preferred And if it happened that a generall Councell should be celebrated and such a man so well instructed should be present there among them If it should chaunce that either through malice or ignorance the greater part should decline and be opposite against the Gospell Such a Laye man might oppose himselfe against the said generall Councell This is also prooued by the Canon Pudenda 24. Quest 1. And in the Canon Si Papa Distinct 40. OF PVRGATORIE Verely verely I say vnto you he that heareth my word and beleueth in him that sent mee hath euerlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but hath passed from death to life Iohn 5. 24. Wee haue deliuerance through his blood that is forgiuenesse of sinnes Hauing reconciled all things vnto himselfe and to set at peace through the blood of his Crosse both the things in earth and the things in heauen Coloss 1. 14. 20. God hath sent his Sonne to bee a satisfaction for our sinnes 1. Iohn 4. 10. To him that loued vs and hath washed vs from our sins in his blood c. Apoc. 1. 5. The Apostles and Gods Church THE true and faithfull Church of Iesus Christ knoweth and vnderstandeth his word And it yeeldeth no other testemonie but of two wayes onely heauen and hell Whosoeuer therefore shall inuent any other beside shall neuer enter into the others happinesse For no other Purgatorie do we beleeue and confesse then the onely and most precious blood of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ who in himselfe hath made a full purgatition of our sinnes and by his blood we haue deliuerance and absolute remission of them For he that loued vs hath washed and made vs cleane from all being sent from God his Father to be the satisfaction for all our sinnes Concerning that which S. Paul saith That euery mans worke shall bee reuealed by the fire This fire is very falsely vnderstood to bee Purgatorie For the Apostle speaketh in that place of the fire of tribulation of the Crosse and persecutions in this world whereby our Lord examineth and tryeth who are is And that it is so S. Augustine hath faithfully expounded this passage in many places saying Some doe beleeue that all those which haue not forsaken the name of Christ and haue beene baptised in his Church and haue not beene cut off from it by some schisme or heresie that in whatsoeuer sinnes they haue liued and haue not defaced them by repentance or redeemed them by almes deeds But haue continued in them vsually euen to the last day of their life They shall be saued by fire Howbeit according to the greatnesse of their sinnes the fire shall be but diuturnall and not eternall But me thinkes they which do so beleeue and yet are Catholiques are deceiued by humane beneuolence For if we doe enquire for such matter of the deuine Scriptures they make no other answere but Christs death onely and the shedding of his most precious blood You heare now what this holy Father saith that they which beleeue a Purgatorie being forged against the word of God are meerely deceiued by the conceit of humane beneuolence The Pope and his Church OVr Mother holy Church doth make no doubt at all but that there is a Purgatory fire burning for times and limitation which purgeth and extenuateth those sinnes the guilt whereof is forgiuen but not the paine or penaltie Let euery one bee therefore perswaded that the sacred Scriptures doe render vs good testimonie of foure places to wit Heauen Hell Purgatorie and the Limboes And whosoeuer doth not beleeue these 4. places he shall not escape because he hath been foretold of them And holy Saint Paul the great witnesse of this veritie was not willing to conceale such a secret from vs for he saith That the fire shall approoue the