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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33817	A Collection of discourses lately written by some divines of the Church of England against the errours and corruptions of the church of Rome to which is prefix'd a catalogue of the several discourses.		1687 (1687)	Wing C5141; ESTC R10140	460,949	658

reason it was introduced Thirdly what we are to believe in this matter Lastly I shall conclude with some reflections upon the Authours of this and other new-invented Doctrines in the Church of Rome First I am to prove that this opinion hath no foundation in Scripture The Papists themselves are sensible enough of this therefore they put all the false glosses they can upon it so that the People may discern nothing in the Scripture it self though it be as clear as the Sun For by this craft they have their living as Demetrius and his Crafts men had heretofore But let them fairely and honestly lay open the Books of God to every one's eye without any unreasonable interpretations or spurious additions made to it and I doubt not but the vanity of asserting Purgatory will soon appear Now in Scripture there are matters of a different nature I. Ancient Records the History of former Times and these things were far better known then they are now at this distance of time II. There are things that are wholly expired and out of date and so of less use to us as the whole Mosaical Dispensation III. In Scripture there are matters of Prophecy fitted for those times which they then far better understood then we do now and wherein they were far more concerned then we are for they are transactions partly of things performed which when fulfilled were best understood IV. There are matters of deep Philosophy aswell as great Mysteries which do not belong to the business of Religion Lastly There is the moral part of Religion and our Saviour's Doctrine in which two our Religion consists and this is that Doctrine which hath brought life and immortality to light but hath not revealed any such thing as Purgatory which will appear if we consider what Bellarmine hath alledged in the defence thereof both out of the Old and New Testament According to him the Texts for Purgatory in the Old Testament are first the Fasting of David for Saul and Jonathan 2. King 1. 12. and again 2. Sam. 3. 35. For the death of Ab●er Which Fasting of David must be as he fansies for the obtaining of something for them at God's hands after their deaths and when nothing can be obtained for Mens Souls that are already in Heaven or Hell it follows that some Mens Souls are in neither of those places but must be in Purgatory We answer that Mourning and Fasting were never practised upon a design of procuring thereby any benefit to the Deceased but they were customs only and ceremonies made use of to ●estifie the honour and respect they had for their Friends departed and all Nations have had their particular wayes of discharging their last Duty to their Friends when they have left this World without any thought of doing them any service in the World to come The Cardinal is not contented with this Argument but he produces other places of the Old Testament to support his opinion in the behalf whereof he cites almost every Text wherein there is the word anger or fire or burning or purging or cleansing it were an infinit task to answer every thing he alledges and altogether needless because there is not so much as any shew or colour of proof in any one of them Therefore we will pass to those Texts of the New Testament which he sayes are for him First He alledges that of St. Matthew 12. 32. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world nor that which is to come This world to come if you will beleive him must needs be Purgatory Now by the world to come nothing else is meant in Scripture but that everlasting state which we shall enter upon after death in which all agree there shall be no middle state between that of Heaven and the other of Hell therefore the world to come and Purgatory are inconsistent for one Scripture is the best Comment upon another so that this way of Expression uk en tuto to aioni ud● en to mellonti neither in this World nor that which is to come is made easie and plain by St. Mark c. 3. v. 29. hos d' an blasphemeseis to Pneuma to hagion ouk echei aphesin eis to aiona alla enochos estin ai●non criseos now this manner of Expression in St. Matthew oukaphethesatai anto out ' en tuto to aioni out ' ento mellonti it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world nor in that which is to come signifies just so much and no more as ouk echei aphesin eis to aiona hath never forgiveness but is in danger of Eternal Damnation as much as to say this sin is of that malignant and heinous nature that it justly deserves endless punishment and will never be pardoned II. Another is that of the 1 Cor. 3. They themselves shall be saved but so as by fire or but as through fire which fire he sayes must be the fire of Purgatory We answer that these words seem to allude to those of Zachar. 13. 9. where he saith I will bring the third part through fire and refine them as silver is refined which is a fair warning to men that the Doctrines they embrace and their practices according to them may be such as will bear the severest tryal that they may not be like wood hay and stubble which will not endure the fire for the Particle hos is a Particle of similitude as the whole phrase hos did pyros is proverbial used in Scripture aswell as in other Authors to signifie a narrow escape out of a great danger just as St. Peter expresses it 1 Pet. 3. 20. di ' ●ydatos so here it is dia pyros he shall be saved with great dificulty so as through fire III. A Third place is that of 1 Cor. 15. concerning Baptism for the Dead here the Cardinal ventures very far even to the drawing of fire out of water the flames of Purgatory out of these washings Baptism for the Dead and Prayer for the Dead is the same thing in his sense though it be discordant to the harmony and scope of the whole Scripture For the word Baptizesthai in Scripture ●ignifies to Wash or purify by Washing it must be rendred in the same sense here For as all Nations had their peculiar Rites of Burial so had the Jews who were used to wash the Carkasses of the Dead with warm water Camomile and dryed Roses being put into it This Baptismos or use of Baptisation was threefold The first apo nekron a washing from the pollution contracted by the touch of the dead Ca●kass The Second was Baptismos t●n Nekron washing of the dead Corpse its self as Tabitha was washed The last was the Baptization in the Text Baptismes hyper ton Nekron in use only among some misguided Christians for the Apostle undertook to convince the Corinthians of the truth of