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A30059	The contrariety of popery to the blessed word of God wherein may be seen that the doctrine and practice of the Church of Rome are not consistent with the sacred oracles of the Old and New Testament ... / written by Digby Bull ...	Bull, Digby.	1695 (1695)	Wing B5410; ESTC R8749	67,944	72

he might have an opportunity of doing an act of mercy and kindness to him even at that time when he came to apprehend our Lord and to take him away to be crucified And he cured his ear again that no one might have any just cause to complain that any injury or wrong was done to him by Christ or his Disciples And when his Disciples would have called for fire to come down upon the Samaritans as Elias did because the Samaritans would not entertain them perceiving that they were Jews he rebuked them and told them that he was not come to destroy mens Lives but to save them Luk. 9.54 And when his disciples James and John saw this they said Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from Heaven and consume them even as Elias did But he turned and rebuked them and said ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of For the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them And from hence it is plain that the Disciples of the blessed Jesus ought not to destroy mens lives but to do what they well can to save them Ananias indeed and Sapphira his Wife were stricken dead upon St. Peter's admonition of them Acts 5.1 But this seems to be done by the immediate power of God and St. Peter caused no violent hand to be laid upon them And this was for a very great Crime for lying to the Holy Ghost and to God And such sins against the Holy Ghost men are not now well capable of committing except God should now vouchsafe such evidence and demonstration of the Holy Spirit as was then which is not to be expected This place cannot be any encouragement at all now to Cruelty and Bloodshed Elymas for his wickedness was stricken blind upon St. Paul's words Acts 13.11 But this seems also to be done by the immediate power of God and it is probable that he had still time to repent and God might thus afflict him that he might be brought to repentance hereby if he would St. Paul ordered that the incostruous Person at Corinth should be delivered to Satan 1 Cor. 5.5 But this was for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus That by such chastisement he might be brought to repentance and so be saved He also delivered Hymeneus and Alexander to Satan 1 Tim. 1.20 But it was that they might learn not to blaspheme He ordered also that an heretick after the first and second admonition should be rejected Tit. 3.10 But gave Titus no command to put him to death And our blessed Saviour commanded his Apostles when he sent them forth to be harmless like Doves Matt. 10.16 Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of Wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves Our blessed Lord and his Apostles practiced nothing like this bloody Cruelty and he commanded his Apostles the quite contrary and shews that he came into the World upon no such design but for a quite contrary end And the Gospel is full of Precepts commanding the highest charity and love and goodness that can be to all men even to our enemies Matt. 5.44 saith our Saviour But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despightfully use you and persecute you That ye may be the Children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the Evil and on the Good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust And to this purpose Luk. 6.27 This universal love and charity are we to exercise that we may be the Children of God and imitate his universal love and kindness and if we do not so we shall not approve our selves to be the true Children of God And saith St. Paul Rom. 12.14 Bless them which persecute you bless and curse not And ver 20 Therefore if thine Enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink For in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good And saith he Gal. 5.22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long suffering gentleness goodness faith or faithfulness meekness temperance These are the works of the good Spirit of God and not Bloodshed and Cruelty And saith St. Peter 1 Pet. 1.22 See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently And 1 Pet. 2.15 For so is the will of God that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men This and not the Sword and Rack and Fire is the way that he prescribes to silence the ignorance of the foolish And 1 Pet. 4.8 And above all things saith he have fervent charity among your selves for charity shall cover the multitude of sins This fervent and universal love and charity doth the Gospel require And so far ought we to be from malice and cruelty towards others that we should rather be ready to lay down our own Lives for them when it is likely to be beneficial to them as St. John shews 1 Job 3.16 Hereby perceive we the love of God saith he because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren And so far is the Gospel of Christ from tolerating and giving any encouragement to such bloody Cruelty and merciless Practices that it flatly declares that Murderers shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven but that they are like to perish eternally and to go to their Father the Devil that was a Murderer from the beginning as our Saviour saith Joh. 8.44 That such are not to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven St. Paul shews Gal. 5.19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest saith he which are these Adultery fornication Envyings murders drunkenness revelling and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And saith St. John 1 Joh. 3.15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal Life abiding in him For Envy and Hatred and Murder especially are men to be shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven And saith St. John Rev. 21.8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Such bloody Murders and merciless Cruelties as are committed by the Romish Church are thus severely threatned in the Gospel and it Cries out aloud against them as directly contrary to it We are to lead holy and innocent Lives and to take great care that we do not cause the Christian Religion to be evil spoken of among Unbelievers Rom. 2.24 1 Tim. 6.1 Tit. 2.5 But such wicked and hellish Practices are the ready way to

Spirit in Noah and other pious men perhaps too For it was the Spirit of Christ that was in Noah and the Prophets But they being then disobedient and abusing God's Mercy and Long-suffering and refusing to amend their sinful lives are now in hell eternally damned and not in Purgatory and the Long suffering of God doth now no longer wait for their repentance and here is no proof that Christ preached to any such spirits in prison after his death And it doth appear that these sinners are like to perish for ever from 2 Pet. 2.4 For saith he if God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment And spared not the old World but saved Noah the eight person a preacher of righteousness bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly Here we see that these wicked and ungodly men are reckoned with the Angels that sinned and are cast down to hell And from hence it doth appear that they are like to perish for ever and that they are not in any Purgatory out of which they are like to be delivered Here in this place of St. Peter 1 Pet. 3.19 there is nothing that looks like the Popish Purgatory out of which men are to be delivered by Prayers and Masses and Popish Absolutions Again saith St. Paul 1 Cor. 3.15 If any man's work shall be burnt he shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire And this some Papists would have to be the fire of Purgatory But it is clear that the Apostle asserteth no such thing as Purgatory here The Apostle here doth shew that this was to be a fiery Tryal to try every man's work of what sort it was and that if a man's work should be burnt in this Tryal and be found to be nought he should very narrowly escape and be saved as by fire He doth not here positively affirm that he shall be saved by fire but useth it as a similitude to express the difficulty of such a man's being saved That he shall be saved just as a man is saved by or out of the fire when his house is on fire about him and there is but one step between him and death Ver. 11 saith St. Paul For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ Now if any man build on this foundation gold silver precious stones wood hay stubble Every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon he shall receive a reward If any man's work shall be burnt he shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire Here it is clear that the Apostle speaketh of some day of Tryal some such Judgment as came upon the Jews as seems probable And here we see that those that built upon the foundation of Christ sound Doctrines and good pious works according to the Gospel of Christ such as would abide the fiery Tryal of this Day and the strict examination of Almighty God as gold and silver will abide the fire those we see were to receive a reward and were like to speed well and here is no mention made that they should escape and be saved as by fire in such a hazardous and difficult manner But those that should build corrupt Doctrines and sinful Works upon this foundation such as would not abide the fiery Tryal of this Day as Wood and Hay and Stubble will not abide the fire such men were like to suffer loss and be in extreme danger and their deliverance would be like the delivering a man out of the fire when he is just ready to be swallowed up with destruction To escape by or out of the fire is a common expression to signify a narrow escape out of some great danger Psal 66.12 saith the Psalmist We went thorow fire and thorow water That is not thro' Purgatory as is clear enough because it was in this World but thro' great hardships and dangers And Amos 4.11 I have overthrown some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and ye were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning That is ye were preserved from destruction just when it was seizing upon you like as a brand or stick is preserved from being burnt when it is snatched out of the very fire And so Zee 3.2 Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire And saith St. Jude ver 23 And others save with fear pulling them out of the fire That is delivering them from the great danger that they were in And to be saved by fire is to be saved from perishing by it as St. Peter useth the like expression of being saved by water that is from perishing by water 1 Pet. 3.20 While the ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water That is from being destroyed with the Flood which drowned the old World And so St. Paul useth by fire here in this place When such a Day of Tryal and Judgment cometh upon men God of his great Mercy may deliver some from the fire of Destruction when they have deserved and are ready to perish by it who will afterwards be truly thankful for such a Mercy and make a good use of it and have not provoked him in such a high degree and sinned so presumptuously against him as others have done In all these places that are alledged for the proving of the Romish Purgatory we see that there is nothing like it and that these very places do plainly prove to us that there is no such place as Purgatory where men are tormented and from which men are to be delivered by Masses and Prayers and Papal Absolutions Secondly We may see that this is confirmed by many places more in the Sacred Scriptures that there is no such place as Purgatory And 1. We may see that our work is to be done and completed here in this world in order to our eternal Salvation and is not to be done by us in the Romish Purgatory after death and therefore it is manifest that there is no such place as Purgatory where men are to be tormented and fitted for Heaven and Happiness Eccles 9.10 saith the Preacher Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whether thou goest Here the Divine Preacher sheweth that all our work is to be done and compleated here in this World and that there is no place for work or action in the grave after death And said he Eccles 11.3 If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be And hereby he seemeth to intimate unto us that men at