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The whole-armour of GodThe vvhole-armor of God
The whole-armour of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keep him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well use it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sin against the Holy Ghost. By William Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Black Fryers London. ...The vvhole-armor of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keepe him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well vse it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By VVilliam Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Blacke Fryers London. ...
London: printed by John Beale, 1619London: printed by Iohn Beale, 1619
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 3 › Part 2 › Section 40: §. 40. Of Purgatory.
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§. 40. Of Purgatory.
AS for Purgatory (which Papists make to be a middle place between heaven and hell,1 where they say all such are as die not in mortal, but in venial sin, and from whence by the Prayers of the living they may be released,) it is a mere fiction invented of mans idle brain, and maintained to increase Antichrists earthly treasures: it is against the current of the Scripture, which acknowledgeth but two sorts of people,m Children of the kingdom, and children of the wicked, faithful and unfaithful; and accordingly only two places after this life,n heaven and hell. The distinction likewise of mortal and venial sin, as they use it, making some sins in their own⟨p. 379⟩ nature, by reason of the smallness of them Venial, is against the Word, which saith indefinitively of sin (excepting no sin at all,)o The wages of sin is death. Woe to them that after this life enter into any fire: the Scripture no where mentioneth any temporary fire after this life, butp everlasting andq unquenchable.
AS for Purgatory (which Papists make to be a middle place betweene heauen and hell,1 where they say all such are as die not in mortall, but in veniall sin, and from whence by the Prayers of the liuing they may be released,) it is a meere fixion inuented of mans idle braine, and maintained to increase Antichrists earthly treasures: it is against the current of the Scripture, which acknowledgeth but two sorts of people,