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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59251	A vindication of the doctrine contained in Pope Benedict XII, his bull and in the General Council of Florence, under Eugenius the III concerning the state of departed souls : in answer to a certain letter, printed and published against it, by an unknown author, under this title, A letter in answer to the late dispensers of Pope Benedict XII, his bull, &c., wherein the progress of Master Whites lately minted Purgatory is laid open and its grounds examined ... / by S.W.	Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing S2599; ESTC R12974	85,834	208

hear what Pegna writes of him Eymericus sayes he A famous learned and holy man who was appointed the general Inquisitor of the Kingdome of Aragon in the year 1358. which is only 22. years after the Promulgation of this Bull from whence he was called to Avignon by Pope Gregory 11. and there being his Chaplain composed his excellent Directory gathers ten Heresies condemned by this Extravagant and most truly admonishes that so many Catholick verities contrary to those Heresies are thereby prooved and established The place at length out of this so Authentick a Writer I give my Reader at the end of my discourse Letter B. not to interrupt the continued threed of it for by it my Reader will easily observe with what strong confidence the youthful Scholars of this modern School appear in print And if you had been pleased to peruse the continuation of Baronius his Ecclesiastical Annals by Spondanus you would have rested satisfied in this our point for at the year 1333. he thus delivers the opinion of Pope Iohn the 22. then disputed which occasioned this Bull of Benedict his successour For sayes he in that year 1333. as Villanius Rebdorfius the continuator of Nangius and others witness Iohn the 22. then Pope began publickly to treat of what before he had conceived concerning the beatifical vision of Souls what not a few of the ancient both Greek and Latine Fathers Iustinus Ireneus c. did seem to hold That souls now severed from their bodies and duely purged from all stain of sin either in this present mortal life or in the next in Purgatory do not enjoy perfectly the beatifical vision of the divine essence before the last day of Iudgment but do expect the Resurrection of their bodies that together with them they may attain perfect beatitude and to this opinion not as yet altogether reproved or condemned by the holy Church this Pope John himself seemed to incline c. For which reason he gained himself very many Adversaries both among the Cardinals and Prelates and also of other Doctors of Divinity every where and Religious men of all orders And at the year 1334 the same Sp●ndanus delivers that this Pope John the day before he died published a constitution in which he condemned that opinion of which he stood suspected Now Sir when you have perused and weighed these things which I am confident you never dreamt of before for in truth you rested satisfied with what your Solid and cleer-sighted friends had told you of their new devised question of Charity as then disputed you will perhaps observe your error you will see it is not a little heat of youth which presses men of your years to appear in print or a little tickling vein which eggs young men forward to catch their Adversary with an O or an A and pass a witty jest upon him till age and experience hath ripened their discretion which can warrant a Book in the publick view of discreet persons You will be convinced that you were mistaken by your great good affection and esteem of your solid cleer-sighted friends and that in truth you have ingaged your credit a little too farr upon their authority Sect. 14. But this is not all I have to say to you The first fault of negligence and boldness even in this kind is perhaps pardonable in young men But I beseech you Sir how could those solid cleer-sighted persons give you the confidence to impose so grosly upon us to state us here a question of which the Bull delivers not one word of which Cherubinus to whom you appeal makes not the least mention and yet you confidently add All Learned Writers agree pag. 14. Where if you had not named Writers I should have judged you appeal'd to your solid clear-sighted Friends for in truth I cannot find any one Learned Writer who states this your new question as then disputed or defined And I cannot pardon this your so confident imposing on your Reader You tell us our present controversie concerning the delivery of souls out of Purgatory stands not here defined because the Word Purgatory is not in the Bull however it is sufficiently in the Council and the Pope decrees of soul● now purged And you require pag. 26. the Popes or Councils positive is or is not and unless I can shew this Position in terms Souls are purged before the day of judgment I run a hazard to contradict both the Pope and Council Which how to excuse from nonsence if compared with what you are pleased ou● of your kindness to allow p. 27. that the Pope was of the opinion that Purgatory might be finished before the last day which could not be contradictory to his faith is past my skill You know what it is to bring rods to whip himself And can you have the confidence Sir to tell us pag. 29. and elsewhere the onely and sole controversie was Whether perfect Charity brings an immediate heaven and all that the Pope intended to secure● by this present Bull Whilst the Word Charity is not in the Bull whilst there is not the least mention of it in the question even now related in Spondanus which occasioned this definition whilst neither in the Preface to the Decree nor in the Decree it self nor any thing that follows it the Pope pronounces of Charity I or no much less doth he declare either the affirmative or negative of this your new Question to secure it nor is there the least hint in Cherurbinus of it I gave my Reader his whole Compendium that he might see how far you were transported with the high esteem of your solid clear-sighted Friends when you appeal to him who thus agreeing with the Pope pronounces against you All Nor do your Arguments drawn from holy desires pag. 15. 16. or the future rewards and punishments which the Pope so earnestly inculcates in his Preface to this definition at all avail you Alas Sir the whole systeme of Christian Religion every part and parcell of it is directed to plant to kindle holy desires in our Souls and yet I think you will not easily avow there is nothing else defined or recommended to us in this whole fabrick but purely and precisely that perfect Charity brings an immediate heaven nor will it be any plea for you that this was then the question because the Pope ushers his Definition with this Exhortation to holy desires which might very well and properly introduce any Position of Christian Religion whatsoever and peculiarly this because by progress in vertue and holy desires our endeavours are rendred more effectual for souls in that distressed condition as very neer allyed to his Decrees concerning the state of departed souls For how neer a tye soever the one hath to the other though it were by an immediate necessary evident consequence yet it is highly unlawful to change the state of the present question and impose upon us that not it but some other thus allyed to it stands