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ground_n	article_n	faith_n	scripture_n	1,458	5	6.2186	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20606	The rockes of Christian shipwracke, discouered by the holy Church of Christ to her beloued children, that they may keepe aloofe from them. Written in Italian by the most reuerend father, Marc Ant. de Dominis, Archb. of Spalato, and thereout translated into English; Scogli del christiano naufragio, quali va scoprendo la santa chiesa di Christo. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.	1618 (1618)	STC 7005; ESTC S117489	73,138	191

can to the Church that is to the bellies of the Priests and Friars by whom they are perswaded that this is the onely way to ouerleape Purgatory And if he that lyes thus at mercy drop away without paying such ransome then they beleaguer his children or other his heires or executors vrging them for the pulling their fathers or brothers or husbands or sonnes soule out of the horrible torments of Purgatory to make allowance for the singing of so many Masses or to found and endow an Altar a Chappell a Church a dayly Masse for euer and a day or some such like erections So that this same Purgatory is the nourse and chiefe susteiner of an infinite rabble of most irregular and lewd priests who still ring in your eares that Masses are true and propitiatory Sacrifices for the liuing and for the dead As for Purgatory as it hath no foundation nor reason whereupon to build it so the holy Scripture hath none no not the least mention of it but on the contrary it hath many authorities and grounds a little afore pointed at by me which proue that it may not in any wise be mainteined The Papists haue long gone afishing to finde some place in Scripture which may make a semblance of Purgatory but all in vaine Surely whatsoeuer God would haue me to know as an Article of faith or as a necessary point or very important for the saluation of my children he hath set it downe in the Scripture in such man̄er that I may and ought thence to draw and auouch it but he will not in any wise that any of my family out of his owne capricious conceit should deuise an opinion and propound it to my children and after he hath thus of his owne head auouched it then to goe a begging for some fragment of a word in Scripture to maintaine it as they haue done about Purgatory alleadging for it some places which are subiect to many expositions whereof none at all haue any acquaintance with Purgatory Verily I neither can nor may deny that from my very ancient times I haue alwayes had a good liking and so haue prouided that in the death of my children such as died not in very ill and desperate estate there should prayers be made and other deuotions to God and that for diuers reasons First that funerals and obsequies being an vniuersall and morall custome intertained by all Nations and vsed by all sorts of men and in that behalfe not to be neglected they might be continued in my Family not barely as humane and naturall ceremonies but also as Christian and religious and that with giuing thankes to God that such or such a sonne of mine had rendered his soule to his Creator and had passed with his holy faith from this my house militant to that other Congregation of the first borne whereby I did reuiue vnto those that were present at the funerall the memory of the soules immortalitie of the expected resurrection of that dead body and of the strict vnion that is betweene me and my deerest sister now triumphing to whom in these my prayers for the dead I did direct that soule with very good hope that it was to ariue there Moreouer besides this those my prayers and supplications which ought to haue beene made ouer the party ready to die whilest hee beeing now in his last agony cannot performe any longer the actions of penitence and humiliation before God nor acknowledge his owne guilt nor craue pardon for his daylie sinnes I doing the office of a mother present them for him in his funerall together with the company of his brethren and vtter those prayers ouer him now dead which should haue beene vttered ouer him dying And if you would thorowly sift your Masses framed for the dead the ancient prayers which are set downe in them beeing currant at this day throughout the Papacie you should find that they are prayers to be vsed rather ouer him who is at the last gaspe then who is already dead For in them I pray for remission not of any temporall paines but of the sinnes themselues yea euen mortall sinnes and for deliuerance from hell as also in Masses for the dead yee shall neuer finde any prayers for freeing the soule out of Purgatory Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorū de poenis Inferni deprofundo lacu libera eas de ore Leonis ni absorbeat eas Tartarus nec cadant in obscurum In Missa pro defunctis but expressely out of hell Deliuer the soules of all the faithfull departed from the paines of hell and from the deepe lake free them from the mouth of the Lyon that hell doe not swallow them vp and that they fall not into the darke so that it is a meere foppery to goe about to picke Purgatory out of these prayers Likewise those tridualls or thirday-masses those trentalls or moneths-mindes those anniuersaries or yeeres-dirges or such like trinkets are the meere inuentions of Auarice aforesaid and therefore their thrusting of Purgatory vpon you is a very collusion They auouching and teaching that there remaine certaine temporall punishments for your mortall sinnes which sinnes yet are forgiuen in this life doe hereupon inioyne Satisfactions after remission And here wee finde them intangled in many difficulties which of them knoweth the quantity of those temporall paines which God left to be vndergone by the penitent after that hee is accepted into grace how can they enioyne a true proportion of Satisfaction If they shall impose more then his debt requires they shall doe him wrong and deale vniustly with him if they giue him short measure they deceiue him and defraud him of his entire deliuerance and so the Confessor by his owne fault tumbles this poore soule into Purgatory after death For if hee had imposed sufficient Satisfaction hee had cleane wiped out the skore and had left the penitent neuer a farthing in debt to Purgatory And as for this Satisfaction by what operation doth it cancell the punishment it were fit that they should declare whether it worke ex opere operato or ex opere operantis by the deede done or by the disposition of the doer And heere againe they dash vpon hard difficulties Besides this where hath God bound himselfe to release the punishment of sinnes by any action of man When doth hee pardoning the fault leaue a guilt of temporall punishment Doe you see into what perplexities into what dangers they thrust you They make you beleeue that Christ's satisfactions are vnsufficient seeing that now ordinarily they doe not take away all the punishment with the fault They make you to trust vpon your owne Satisfactions as more able to cancell the punishments then can be done by Christ's Satisfaction They make you remaine in a perpetuall perplexitie and doubt whether you haue fully satisfied or no They make you lazie and negligent in going thorough-stitch with true Repentance such as God requireth of you and whereupon hee