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A78369	The Catholick mirrour. Or, a looking-glasse for Protestants Wherein they may plainly see the errours of their church, and the truth of the Roman Catholick. Which is divided into seventeen chapters, containing the principle points in dispute between Catholicks and Protestants, and all proved by their own Bible, for the satisfaction of those that desire to imbrace true religion.		1662 (1662)	Wing C1494A; ESTC R229524	59,266	156

Justice expected satisfaction by repelling them from thence and yet for that sin many thousands have and shall be damned and for the sins of the world we know Gods Justice was so urgent for satisfaction that he drowned the whole world except those in the Ark he satisfied his Justice also many times in the punishing of the Israelites in the desert and for the sins of Corah Dathan and Abiram we all know what satisfaction God gave to his Justice Num. 16. v. 31.32 when he caused the earth to open and swallow them up alive Now is it not strange to think how little reason we have to flatter our selves as we do and think we shall get to heaven in a dream without any satisfaction on our part at all If we did but truly consider our own state we should not have so good an opinion of our selves as to think God should punish so many to satisfie his Justice and we should scape scot-free Nay those whom he dearly loved as Moses in depriving him of entrance into the land of Promise 2 Sam. 12. ver 10. But more to our purpose is that of holy David where for his sin with Bathsaba God told him the Sword should never depart from his house Now here Davids sin was pardoned as to the eternal punishment but yet Gods justice requiring from him this temporal satisfaction as the sword cleaving to his house and the death of of his Childe Ver. 14. A plainer place cannot be to prove what is here treated of and I hope it is good Scripture But to let you see further that you may be totally undeceived conform to this place is another concerning the same man where for his sin in numbring the people 2 Sam. 24. ver 14.15 16 c. though God told him by the Prophet Gad he had pardoned him his sin yet he to satisfie his Justice caused his Angel to destroy seventy thousand of them which to Davids heart was a hot Purgatory or temporal punishment Thus you see many times God hath been pleased to be so favourable to some of his dearest friends to purge them here by the fire of tribulations as Adam Moses and David with many others which might be shown but this to reasonable men will suffice since it is so plain by the holy word of God And now it will concern me to shew you by the fame word that there is a temporal punishment or Purgatory after death I will onely give you this reason for it before I quote my Text which is that since there be many servants of God which dye unpunished here in this life for their sins committed and so have not satisfied Gods Justice must of necessity do it by being purified before they can go to heaven for the Scripture saith plainly that no unclean thing can enter in there and if so we may easily judge how unclean thousands are which dye Christians and in communion with Gods Church but yet not jump just to heaven but are purged by fire And to satisfie you in this you must observe what Saint Paul saith in his Epistle to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 3. v. 12.13 where first he tells us the different sorts of works by the similitudes of Gold Silver precious Stones Wood Hay Stubble and then how this fire shall try them for saith he Every mans works shall be made manifest and the day of our Lord shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is Again saith he Ver. 15. If any mans work shall be burnt he shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire by which it is plain that we must pass through this fiery tryal before we get to heaven either by great crosses here in this life or else in the purging place of the life to come It would be worth our time did we but seriously consider how that many persons which have been the dearly beloved friends of Christ have had in this life the greatest share of temporal punishment as his ever Blessed Mother though I will not say for her sins the twelve Apostles and many thousands of Martyrs which have satisfied Gods Justice with the loss of their blood and yet we now adayes hug our selves in a sottish security and think we shall be conveyed to heaven in Beds of Roses as if God were so partial to mankinde to punish those that were good and holy and spare us that have much more deserved it But now again to the Scripture to let you see what our Saviour saith concerning paying our debts to God and remission of sins in the next life as in Saint Matthew he saith Mat. 5. v. 27. We should be at agreement with our adversary lest he deliver us over to the Judge and the Judge throw us into prison from whence we shall not get out till we have paid the utmost farthing Now in respect of our sins God is our adversary and if we agree not with him here that is to satisfie his justice by Alms-deeds tears and suffering in this life he will throw us into the prison of Purgatory till we have satisfied the debt there Again saith our Saviour Mat. 12. v. 32. Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost shall never be pardoned in this life nor in the world to come by which it is plain that as Gods justice is satisfied here by the pardon of sins so there is sins to be pardoned in the life to come which must be in Purgatory for out of Hell is no redemption nor no expectation of pardon of sins Did there not want a right understanding in the hearts of men concerning Scripture there could not be so much errour and blindeness in the reading of it as there is for all those places which plainly show Christian Religion and the Catholique Faith are past by and no more minded then if they had no relation to Gods word at all If most Protestants that happens to read this book should but examine their own consciences they could not but confess that most places here cited to prove our faith was so little taken notice of that they knew not whether they were in the Bible or no And now after all these Texts here mentioned out of holy Writ to prove this point if any Protestant will or can shew me but one place in all the Bible that any one went or was conveyed to Heaven as soon as they dyed I do assure them I will as once I was be of their Faith but if they cannot then are they obliged in conscience to believe what is said or be guilty of Infidelity to God and his Holy Word and to the intent that I may plainly discover the errour of those that believe there is nor before Christs coming was any other places then Heaven and Hell after death it is my purpose therefore in the next Chapter to prove that there is a

fill a large volume to confirm you I will onely conclude with that of Saint Augustine Aug Med. 40. where invoking the Saints he saith O holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary Mother of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ vouchsafe to intercede for me to him whose Temple thou was deserved to be made holy Michael holy Gabriel holy Raphel holy Quire of Angels and Arch-Angels Patriarchs and Prophets A postles Evangelists Martyrs Confessors and all the Just I humbly crave that you would vouchsafe to intercede to God for me a poor Sinner that I may be delivered from the Jaws of the Devil and from Eternal Death Amen Chap. 7. Shewing that in all Ages Angels have been assistant to Man for his good and that we ought to reverence the Memory both of Angels and Saints as they are the chief Attendants on the living God IT is no wonder we are so little acquainted with those glorious Citizens Angels and Saints when we consider how the memory of them is slighted and contemned in this our unhappy Age and that men now adayes desire no more society with them then they would do with those that designs their ruine so miserably hath Satan depraved our natures and suggested to us a slighting of those Blessed Spirits to the intent he may draw us the more to his hellish service and so consequently to our utter destruction But to undeceive a little those that are thus corrupted with this principle I shall plainly show you many examples from holy Scripture both of the great good they have done to many holy men and also what Worship and Reverence they have done to the Angels The first is from that of holy Abraham Gen. 18. v. 2. when the three Angels appeared to him to let him know the good news of his having a Son the Text saith He ran to meet them from the Tent-door and bowed himself toward the ground The second place that of holy Lot Gen. 19. v. 1. And there came two Angels to Sodom at even and Lot sate in the gate of Sodom and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground and said My Lords turn in I pray you Ver. 2. c. Now here I may demand why the holy Scripture should instance to us their bowing with their faces to the ground but onely to show us that as they are the heavenly Ambassadours that kinde of reverence is due to them Thirdly when the Angel appeared to Joshua by Jericho Josh 5. v. 13.14.15 he demanded who he was for and the Angel said Nay but as Captain of the host of the Lord am I come and Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship and the Angel bid him pull off his shooes for the place where he stood was holy ground So here you see is first the Angels assistance in coming to fight for them and secondly a high worship done to him and the place where he stood by pulling off his shooes and yet so miserably blinded are people now adayes to think and say that these kinde of things are Superstition not at all considering that it ever hath that it is and ever will be the practice of all holy men to do this homage to them Fourthly an Angel appears to the Israelites at Gilgal Judg. 2. v. 1.4 and for their good tells them of what things God had done for them which when he had done all the people lift up their voices and wept Fifthly an Angel appears to Gideon to comfort and strengthen him against the Midianites Judg. 6. v. 12.22 23. and when he perceived it was an Angel of God he was afraid he should dye till God told him he should not by which we may see what a reverend apprehension he had of the Angel Sixthly an Angel appears to Sampsons Mother and tells her being barren the glad news of a Son if you read the whole Chapter Judg. 13. v. 3. it is much to our purpose both to see how the holy Angel conversed with his Father and Mother both as also with what reverence they treated with him Seventhly we read that the holy Prophet Elijah being a sleep under a Juniper-tree 1 Kings 19. v. 5. an Angel awaked him which brought him both to eat and drink in the Wilderness where he was and where no bread was to be had and the Angel appeared to him the second time Ver. 6. and he rose and eat what the Angel brought him and by vertue of that went forty dayes and forty nights on his journey A ninth place is of an Angel assisting the people of God in the slaying of the Assyrians Isa 37. v. 36. 185000. men which came against them and Hezekiah their King Again in the Book of Tobias we read of many good things done by the Angel Raphel as to young Tobias in guiding of him in his journey from all dangers Tobit 3. v. 17. in chasing away and binding the Devil Asmodius in curing of old Tobias and many others of that kinde Chap. 12. v. 15. and at last he tells him who he was and how he was one of the seven Angels that presents the Prayers of the Saints Ver. 16. and goes in and out before the holy One then they were both troubled and fell upon their faces for they feared which trouble we may conceive was because they had not done him before the worship due to an Angel I could produce many other places out of the old Testament to prove this but I will now proceed to the new and first of that most happy and ever blessed news of our Redemption where the holy Angel Gabriel was imployed for our eternal good to declare to the Blessed Virgin Mary the Incarnation of the Son of God in her Virginal Womb Luke 1. v. 26.27 28. we may devoutly imagine there passed much reverence between two such creatures as they which were in so high esteem with God the one to be his Mother and the other his Ambassador Secondly the same Angel came to Zacharias the Priest and told him the glad tydings of his Son John yet when he saw him he trembled and was afraid for very reverence to the Angel So again thirdly two Angels appeared to St. Mary Magdalen Luke 20. v. 12. and the Disciples to tell them the good news of our Saviours Resurrection which was no small comfort to them and after that an Angel visits St. Peter in prison and breaks his gives and chains and opens the doors Acts 12. v. 7.8 9 10. and the City Gates and lets him free Again an Angel appears to Cornelius and assists him by counselling him to send for Peter about his salvation Acts 11. v. 3.4 and when he saw the Angel he was afraid nay when Saint Peter came he fell down before him as being a holy man but his humility would not suffer him to continue so In like manner the