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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Relics of Rome. › Of Purgatory.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Purgatorye.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And as they do not agree among themselves where pickpurse Purgatory is:1 so likewise do they dissent both in the tormentors & in the torments of the souls. Some teach, ye the souls in purgatory are punished of the good angels at gods appointment: some say, that they be wicked Spirits of hell that punish them. Some again hold, that the souls in purgatory are tormented with fire only, according to this sentence of Saint Paul:2 Uniuscuiusque opus quale sit, ignis probabit: some contrariwise affirm, that they are punished both with fire and water,3 according to this saying of the Psalmographe. Transivimus per ignem & aquam, & reduxisti nos in refrigerium. But howsoever the silly simple souls be punished, the Papists with one voice affirm, that they are most painfully afflicted and tormented, yea and that with such pains and torments, ⟨image 228⟩as be incomparable: the pains & torments of hell only excepted. Of those most intolerable pains of purgatory, thus read we in the Popes decrees. He must first be purged with the fire of purgatory,4 that hath differed the fruit of conversion unto an other world. And this fire, although it be not everlasting, is notwithstanding a wonderful grievous fire.5 For it exceedeth and passeth all pain, which any man at any time hath suffered in this life. In the flesh there was never so great pain found, although the Martyrs did suffer marvellous torments &c.6 And in the book entytled, Sermones discipuli, we read on this manner. The souls which are in purgatory, are in most grievous pains. For if all the burning coals in the world were gathered together and poured upon an heap,7 and a man should stand in the midst of them, yet should he not suffer so great heat and burning, as the souls do in Purgatory. No temporal pain may be compared with the pains of Purgatory. The pains is so great, that a little