The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

Use 1 It shall be a word of confutation, and it directly meets with Popish Purgatory; a wicked error that falls like Dagon before the Ark, and like clouds dispersed by the Sun; so that sottish imagination is hence condemned by this doctrine: it is a dream devised to pick mens purses, and to delude mens consciences, and to fill the Popes coffers, they think that Christ frees every faithful man from the punishments of hell, and from all that any sin hath devised, but only there are some venial sins, and the punishments of those, a man must suffer for himself; and therefore when a man dies, he must go down to Purgatory, and there be purged and cleansed from the evil of them: this is that which they say, if they can but persuade men ⟨p. 289⟩that they shall be in Purgatory, and that the Pope can pardon them; what will not a man give to be freed from it? this dotage is clearly confuted with the evidence of the former truth, I will only express it thus: If Christ suffered all the plagues which divine justice required, then there is neither the punishments of Hell, nor Purgatory to be suffered by the faithful; but our Saviour suffered whatsoever the justice of God required: and therefore neither sin, nor hell, nor purgatory, have any thing to lay to the charge of Gods chosen.

Vse 1 It shall bee a word of confutation, and it directly meets with Popish Purgatory; a wicked errour that fals like Dagon before the Arke, and like clouds dispersed by the Sunne; so that sottish imagination is hence condemned by this doctrine: it is a dreame devised to picke mens purses, and to delude mens consciences, and to fill the Popes coffers, they thinke that Christ frees every faithfull man from the punishments of hell, and from all that any sinne hath devised, but onely there are some veniall sinnes, and the punishments of those, a man must suffer for himselfe; and therefore when a man dies, hee must goe downe to Purgatorie, and there bee purged and cleansed from the evill of them: this is that which they say, if they can but perswade men ⟨p. 289⟩that they shall be in Purgatorie, and that the Pope can pardon them; what will not a man give to bee freed from it? this dotage is cleerly confuted with the evidence of the former truth, I will onely expresse it thus: If Christ suffered all the plagues which divine justice required, then there is neither the punishments of Hell, nor Purgatory to be suffered by the faithfull; but our Saviour suffered whatsoever the justice of God required: and therefore neither sinne, nor hell, nor purgatorie, have any thing to lay to the charge of Gods chosen.