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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08680	Antidote against purgatory. Or discourse, wherein is shewed that good-workes, and almes-deeds, performed in the name of Christ, are a chiefe meanes for the preuenting, or migatating the torments of purgatory. Written by that vertuous, and rightworthy gentle-woman (the honour of her sexe for learning in England) Ms. Iane Owen, late of God-stow, in Oxfordshire, deceased, and now published after her death	Owen, Jane, of God-stow.	1634 (1634)	STC 18984; ESTC S103135	54,249	307

another Iudge or by humbly beseeching the mercy of the Iudge or by some other meanes he may free himselfe in some measure from the vexations with which he is enuironed But alas in Purgatory the Soules can do nothing but only patiently suffer their punishment True it is that Holy Men liuing heere on earth may pray for the dead may offer vp almes and other satisfactory workes for the soules in Purgatory But this priuiledge is not granted to the soules themselues being in Purgatory except by a certaine Priuiledge to some few and this most rarely to wit to appeare to liuing men and to beseech ayde and help by their charity Therefore the state and condition of those soules are most miserable who being in those torments cānot beget any ease or help to themselues or to the soules of their Father Sonne Brother Mother sister or wyfe or of any other friend lying in Purgatory But perhaps It may be here suggested that few are those Soules who come to Purgatory and therefore the punishments there inflicted are not much to be apprehended but in a sort to be sleighted and smally regarded But to this I answere that the soules which lye cruciated tormented in Purgatory are innumerable and so many as that the number of them is sufficient to moue and stir vp mercy though their torments were far more easy and light This is euident seeing we are instructed a little before from the history of Venerable Bede that Drithelmus did see an infinite number of soules in Purgatory as also frō the lyfe of Blessed Christina that the place of Purgatory was a most vast huge place replenished filled with soules Neither can it be otherwise seeing nothing that is defiled and contaminated can enter into the kingdome of Heauen but they only are able to penetrate vnto the sight of God which is a light and in whom there is not any darkenes and to that place of infinite purity who are truly holy and immaculate are mēbers of that Church in which there is not either macula or ruga spot or wrincle Ephes 5. Now who these men are are most rare and most few and therfore it followeth that all others who belong to the number of the Elect are to passe through the torments and paynes of Purgatory Now from all the former passages of this discourse it may necessarily be gathered that the Doue hath iust cause daily to lament and mourne for so many mēbers of hers which with an infinite desire thirst after their heauenly Country and yet are in the meane time detayned from thence by intollerable flames of fyer and are cruciated afflicted with most bitter inexplicable paines Thus far doth the Godly Cardinall Bellarmyne discourse of these former foure Heads touching the Nature of Purgatory Which discourse in regard both of his Learning Sanctity ought to sway and preuayle much with all such good pious English Catholikes who are sollicitous and carefull of their owne soules good Now the Authour of this Treatise wil conclude this first Section by adioyning a Reason drawne from Schoole Diuinity which demonstrateth that the paynes of Purgatory are far more atrocious and intollerable then any paynes or torments of this life can be It is this Three things do concurre as well to griefe or payne as to ioy To wit Potentia Obiectum Coniunctio vnius cum altero as S. Tho. p. 2. q. 31. ar 5. saith An intelligent or at least a sentient Power or Faculty a conuenient Obiect to that Power and an Vnion or Coniunction of the Obiect with the Power Now as concerning the Power doubtlesly Potentia rationalis a Rational Power or Faculty is more capable of payne or griefe then Potentia animalis a sensible Faculty or Function For if we respect Apprehension or knowing the Vnderstanding in a Rationall soule is as it were a mayne Fountaine the Sense but a small Riuer So far as concerneth the Appetite or Desire the wil of a Rationall Soule is a maine Fountayne also The Appetite being inferiour to it is but like a small Riuer Seeing therfore the naked soule it selfe is immediatly tormented the griefe thereof ought to be the greatest in respect of the Patient for here in this lyfe not so much the soule as the body is tormented by reason of the paynes of the body some griefe and dolour passeth into the soule Now concerning the Obiect The fyer of Purgatory must be far more violent horrible intense then the fyer in this world is seeing that fyer is created and instituted as an instrument of Gods Iustice who would shew his power in the creation of it Lastly touching the Coniunction of the Power with the Obiect the Coniunction of the Soule with the fyer in Purgatory shall be most strait and as it were intrinsecall For heere in this world where all things are corporall and bodily there is no Coniunction made but only by the touch of the Extremities or vtmost parts of the bodyes and the Superficies of things wheras in Purgatory the torments and fyer thereof shall penetrate most inwardly the very soule it selfe Thus farre touching this first Section Of the meanes to auoyde at least to mitigate the paynes of Purgatory SECT II. HAuing in the precedent Section shewed out of the iudgment of the most learned Cardinall Bellarmyne the atrocity of the paynes of Purgatory and some other Circumstances accōpaning the said paynes in this next place it is conuenient to set downe the meanes through force whereof the sayd paynes may receaue some alleuiation and mitigation I imitating herein the Physitian who first inquireth into the disease after prescribeth Medicines for the curing of the same These meanes according to the Doctrine of the Catholike Church are these following To wit the most holy Sacrifice of the Masse Prayer Almes-deeds or good workes according to those words of S. Austin serm 32. deverb Apost Orationibus sanctae Ecclesiae sacrificio salutari Eleemosynis non est dubium mortuos adiuuari It is not to be doubted but that the Soules of the dead are helped by prayers of the holy Church by the healthfull Sacrifice and by Almes deeds With whom accordeth S. Chrysostome Hom. 41. in 1. ad Cor. saying Iuuatur mortuus non lachrymis sed precibus supplicationibus Eleemosynis A dead man is helped not with teares but with prayers supplications and Almes-deeds With which two former Fathers Venerable Bede to omit many other to auoyde prolixity doth conspire in these words l. 5. hist c. 13. Multos preces viuentium Eleemosynae c. The prayers of the liuing Alms-deeds Fasting and principally the Celebration of the Masse do helpe many who are dead that they may be freed from their torments before the day of Iudgment But of these three seuerall kinds of Suffrages for reliefe of the soules in Purgatory I will chiefly insist in shewing the force and efficacy of good works or Almes-deeds In the explication of