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A02352	Ignis fatuus. Or, The elf-fire of purgatorie Wherein Bellarmine is confuted by arguments both out of the Old and New Testament, and by his owne proofes out of Scriptures and Fathers. Also an annexe to this treatise of purgatorie, concerning the distinction of sinne in mortall and veniall. By M. William Guild, Minister at King-Edvvard.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1625 (1625)	STC 12481; ESTC S118973	32,841	72

and impiously matched that matchlesse free full and perfect satisfaction of Christs with humane satisfactions in an imaginary fire which Auarice hath hatched Ignorance fosters and Crueltie with fire and faggot maintaines Loe here Courteous and charitable Reader presented to thy view As Dauid then came against Goliath armed with the Name of the Lord when that Gyant stood betweene the two Hostes and was a terrour to the Army of Israel So for consternation likewise of this Monster which they situate likewise betweene the place of the damned and glorified to the terrour of simple soules armed with that Armour which experimentally hath euer giuen victorie both in the head and members and wherewith therefore we are bidden be girt continually euen with that Sling and Sword of the Spirit doe we chiefly meane to come against this grand Errour of Poperie the very Diana of Rome that by the very presence of the Arke of God set vp that Idoll Dagon may fall to the ground Next that Goliahs head after his ouerthrow may bee cut off with his owne Sword Arguments God willing of their owne great Warriour Bellarmines though adduced by him for another purpose whether taken from Fathers or Reason shall bee clearely drawne foorth as Sauls Sword or Hamans Halter to kill and strangle themselues And last their proofes for Purgatorie especially such as they vpbraid vs with out of wrested and wronged Scripture wee shall faithfully God willing relate as they are set downe in their foresaid Champion whom cheefely I oppugne and punctually shall answere so that they shall bee seene to bee like short stubble that was gathered vpon necessitie by those vnder Pharaohs bondage who otherwise could not get long straw to themselues And to instance the same here in one particular what will they not bring to proone Purgatorie when Bellarmine brings for it Hebr. 10.27 and sayes that that place is a notable proofe of Purgatory which speakes of a fearefull looking for of iudgement and fiery indignation which shall deuoure the aduersaries and wherein the cleare words and consent of all antiquitie doth shew that Gods aduersaries are spoken of and not his friends who shall bee deuoured and not purged and whom fearefull damnation and consuming wrath abides which is not the lot nor expectation of the godly neither heere nor hence but theirs of whom the Apostle speakes clearly of to wit who treads the Sonne of God vnder foot and hath counted the blood of the Couenant an vnholy thing and done despite to the Spirit of Grace So that such cleare places speaking of the wicked and of hell he will impudently bring to speake of the godly and of Purgatory Accept then courteous Reader with a charitable hand what with a humble one I present and proue not a censorious Waspe but a hony-gathering Bee and that God and common Sauiour of ours who gaue approbation to the widowes mite and will not suffer vnrequited a cup of cold water giuen in his Name giue thee a like minde and blesse the perusall of this and of all other helps to thy edification Thine in the Lord W. GVILD OF PVRGATORY The Romish Assertion THe Papistes describe their Purgatorie to bee a prison next to hell where the soules of the faithfull that are defiled with veniall sinnes and haue not satisfied heere the diuine Iustice fully for mortall sinnes are purged by a temporarie fire as hote as that in hell and very long witnesse Bellarmines expresse words saying Constat plurimas annas in Purgatorio 〈…〉 Iudicij id est per multas annorum centiuias esse cruciandas Yea Non videtur negandum saith hee posse aliquos nos fidei penitentiae agendae per spatium aliquot millium annorum Our Assertion WEe denie any such Purgatorie affirming that Christ is our onely and perfect purger by his Blood And that the word Purging is metaphorically taken from the washing of corporall vncleannesse to signifie the cleansing of the Soule from sinne which is called the vncleannesse thereof Zech. 13.1 So that as an vncleane spot is said to bee purged when it is taken away euen so are sinnes when they are remitted Iohn 1.29 1 Iohn 1.7.9 Also because Christ calleth our sinnes Metaphorically Debts therefore such also is the word Satisfaction God the Father being the Creditor wee the Debtors and Christ the Cautioner who hauing fully satisfied our debt for vs hath thereby freely freed vs at his Fathers hands from it and therefore is called our payment and ransome 1 Tim. 2.6 Math. 20.28 In these foure poynts then consisteth all our difference 1. Wee say that Christ by himselfe hath fully satisfied for vs. Heb. 1.3 They ioyne mans owne satisfaction for himselfe in Purgatorie also 2. Wee say that it is Christ onely that purgeth vs by his blood 1 Ioh. 1.9 They ioyne a fire that doth so also 3. Wee say that his blood purgeth vs from all our sinnes 1 Ioh. 1.7 They say from mortall onely 4. Wee say that hee perfectly purgeth vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 7.25 They say That hee purgeth the guilt only and taketh away the eternall punishment but as for the temporall we must satisfie for it our selues Arguments against Purgatorie and to prooue our Assertion 1. Out of the Old Testament Ezek. 18.22 If the wicked returne I will not remember all his iniquities that is I shall forget them all as not to hold guiltlesse is to hold guiltie Hence we argue That which God forgets as if it had neuer been for that hee punisheth no wayes by any satisfactory punishment which is cleare 1 King 17.18 where punishment is made onely the sequell of remembrance But hee forgets all the sinnes of the conuerted sinner Ezek 18.22 Ergo for them he punisheth him no wise by any satisfactory punishment And whereas Bellarmine by not to remember would meane not to punish eternally onely wee answere him with his owne rule non nostrum est restringere quod Deus amplum esse voluit It is not lawfull to man to make a restriction of that by a circumstance of time which is so comfortably promised and freely by God Isai. 57.1 The righteous is taken away from the euill to come hee shall enter into peace Whence wee reason If the righteous be taken away from a lesse euill on earth in mercie that they may neither see nor feele the common calamitie then they are not particularly themselues put to suffer a greater in Purgatory and there to enter not into peace but torment to satisfie Iustice. But they are taken away from a lesse euill that they see it not in mercy Ergo much more from the feeling of a greater themselues in Iustice. Ecclesiastes 12.7 Then shall dust returne to the earth but the Spirit to God that gaue it Hence wee argue The soule that returnes or ascends to God that gaue it after bodily departure descends not to the fire of Purgatorie except they would make to goe to and goe from

IGNIS FATVVS OR THE ELF-FIRE OF PVRGATORIE Wherein Bellarmine is confuted by Arguments both out of the Old and New Testament and by his owne Proofes out of Scriptures and Fathers Also an Annexe to this Treatise of Purgatorie concerning the distinction of Sinne in Mortall and Veniall By M. WILLIAM GVILD Minister at KING-EDVVARD LONDON Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEVVES and are to bee sold at Britaines Burse 1625. TO THE TRVELY Noble Right Honourable and Religious IOHN Earle of Laderdail Lord Thirlestane c. one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Counsell c. and to his most Religious Countesse and Ladie RIGHT HONOVRABLE THat inueterate-en●mie of Gods glory mans good hath neuer ceased from the beginning to intermi●e in the Lords field his pes●●ent popple amongst the good seed setting a worke the Mysterie of iniquitie euen then when the Mysterie of mans redemption was begun to be published and by force or fraud either as a redde Dragon or as a counterfeite of the Lambe with implacable malice but limit●ed power hee hath euer assaulted the Church both in head and members Sometimes prouoking to sinne as Balak 〈…〉 did the people in Ahabs time as in sinnes o● opinion contra verum This later is of two sorts either hereticall against the 〈…〉 against the Body 〈…〉 The two preceding were old heresies who long ago hath receiued their iust condemnation the later carry the 〈…〉 of their grosse guiltinesse and clear conuiction specially such as are against the Priesthood of Christ consisting in full satisfaction until sole inter 〈…〉 sufferings with Christs all-sufficient oblation making that glorious worke to be as a Linsey-wolsey garment and man to share in the glory of that in the grace whereof he hath onely 〈◊〉 By which impious assertion and illicit coniunction Christ is degraded his blood vilified his merit maimed his crosse curtailed his death debased and his sufferings stained by those who of godlinesse haue made gaine but not made their gaine to bee godlinesse turning Gods Temple againe into a denne of theeues and therein making Merchandise not of Doues but of Soules as is fore-prophesied of them and haue raised againe the tables of Money-changers which Christ once ouerthrew As no more plainely their owne Mantuan affirmes saying Omnia venalia Romae then their owne Pope Pius confirmes saying Nil absque argent● Romana curia donat Nam peccatorum venia Spiritus dona venduntur And indeed though these Subterranean Vulcans and fire-worke men build vpon straw stubble and hay their light assertion without any more solid foundation then the groundlesse conceit of a brainesicke head and couetous heart can afford yet they draw in from the seduced simple most solid substance of gold siluer and large revenewes by a strange sort of Alchymie Manus porrigentes indultrices solùm manus porrigentibus adiutrices but No pennie no Pater noster being better seene as is truely said in the Golden number of actuall reset nor in the Dominicall letter of sacred and holy Writ Neither without cause does these Locusts that came from the bottomlesse pit smell of fire or is it a wonder that these that came out of the smoke of a great furnace doe yet speak to poore soules of a fiery furnace neither can any iustly admire that they torment the conscience whose power giuen them is as the power of Scorpions not to kill outright by simply damning soules for so they should get no profit nor prey but to torment them with the sure expecting of a Purgatory fire out of which there is no release but by the Suffrages and Soule masses and so like Beniamin they rauen as a Wolfe and as the name of the Prophets sonne was they become speedie robbers and swift to the prey neuer resting cruelly to sting and like Iobs miserable comforters to propine to the dying soule in the greatest agony and thirst for cooling comfort such a bitter potion as Christ got on the Crosse while the Lions teeth by some bootie be baited The zeale then which we all owe to Gods glorie and loue which we owe to our fellow members as yet perhaps vncome out of Babell hath moued me at this time to take some paines in this argument to partie the seducers and pitie the seduced and by the sword of the Spirit and Lampe of the Word to conuince the one and conduct the other into the path of truth if they may be cured Which paines ●ight Honourable with no lesse affectionate heart then an officious hand I offer to your view and dedicate to your Name beseeching God that in all honour it may flourish your soule by grace and your estate with prosperitie and that those singular gifts wherewith your God hath indued you may still receiue a happy growth for your better acquitall in that eminent station wherein his wise dispensation hath set you that his Name may bee glorified his Church comforted your Countrey benefited your posteritie blessed and your owne selfe eternally may bee saued in that great day Your Honours in all humble and heartie duetie W. GVILD To the READER COVRTEOVS READER COnsidering the grossenesse of this vnwarrantable cruell and couetous conceit of Purgatorie so that many who in other poynts rests yet in Babell yet in this confesses the vanitie of this prop of Bethauen And perceiuing notwithstanding how peremptorie the Aduersary is not onely against all opposers to this their fatning Kitchin by their thundring Sentence but also against all those who giues not full assent vnto it by their condemnatory Decree adiudging all such to Hells fire for euer So that Bellarmine spares not as vsurping Gods chaire determinatly to afflirme that it is such an article of faith adeo vt qui non credit Purgatorium esse ad illud nunquam sit peruenturus sed in Gehenna sempiterno incendio sit cruciandus I thought my paines should not bee bestowed nor my Penne imployed amisse if according to my penury I should contribute somewhat heerein to the Lords Treasurie that they who stand in the olde way of trueth may bee strengthened and these who are any one footstep come out of Babell may be helped forward and if it were no more but as Augustine sayes that heretikes may vnderstand that there are not onely one or two but many in the campes of orthodox Catholikes who dare with open face meet them As they then who coupled an Oxe and an Asse together against that command of God to the Iewes and sowe their field with diuers seeds or as the children of those of the Captiuitie spake partly in the Iewish Language and partly in the Language of Ammon and Ashdoa Euen so how that false Prophet who hath borrowed likewise the semblance of the Lambs hornes calling him his Vicar that vnder that he might the more craftily vent the speech of the Dragons tongue whose mouth hee is and whose priuiledge he claimes How he I say hath vnequally yoked monstrously mixed vniustly coupled