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The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…
The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations upon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrews : together with certain other meditations and discourses upon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles whereof immediately precede the book : being the sum of diverse sermons preached in S. Gregory's London / by Thomas Adams ...The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations vpon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrewes : together with certain other meditations and discourses vpon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles wherof immediately precede the booke : being the summe of diuerse sermons preached in S. Gregories London / by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by G.P. for John Grismand, 1619London: printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, 1619
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But I purpose not to waste time in this place; and among such hearers, in the confutation of this ridiculous folly. Resting my self on the judgement of a worthy learned man in our Church; that Purgatory is nothing 1else but a Mythology; a moral use of strange fables. As when Pius the second had sent abroad his Indulgences, to all that would take Arms against the Turk; the Turk wrote to him, to call in his Epigrams again. Or as Bellarmine excused Prudentiu•, when he appoints certain ⟨p. 181⟩2holy-days in hell, that he did but poetize. So all their fabulous discourse of Purgatory is but Epigrams & poetry; a more serious kind of jest. Wherein they laugh among themselves, how they cozen the world, and fill the Popes coffers. Who for his aduantage, Ens non esse facit, non ens fore. So that if Roffensis gather out of this 3place, that in Purgatory there is great store of water; We went through fire and water. We may oppose against him Sir Thomas More; who proves from Zechariah 9. that there 4is no water at all. I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water. Set then the frost against the rain, and you may go in Purgatory dry-shod. If there be nothing left but fire, I make no question, but there is not a spark difference betwixt Purgatory and Hell.
But I purpose not to waste time in this place; and among such hearers, in the confutation of this ridiculous folly. Resting my selfe on the iudgement of a vvorthie learned man in our Church; that Purgatory is nothing 1else but a Mythologie; a morall vse of strange fables. As when Pius the second had fent abroad his Indulgencies, to all that would take Armes against the Turke; the Turke wrote to him, to call in his Epigrams againe. Or as Bellarmine excused Prudentiu•, when hee appoints certaine ⟨p. 181⟩