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A godly and learned assertion in defence of the true church of God, and…
A godly and learned assertion in defence of the true church of God, and of His Word written in Latin by that Reverend Father D. Philip Melanchthon, after the convention at Ratisbona, anno 1541 ; translated into English by R.R.A godly and learned assertion in defence of the true church of God, and of His Woorde written in Latine by that Reuerend Father D. Philip Melancthon, after the conuention at Ratisbona, anno 1541 ; translated into English by R.R.
London : Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vinetree by Thomas Dawson, 1580
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If our Adversaries do say, That those torments are not therefore laid upon them, that thereby repentance might grow: but that they should be as satisfactions for sins here committed, this opinion is a great deal more too be refused. For the doctrine of Satisfactions, which the Sentenciaries have devised, is both false and ungodly.1 And truly very many lies & false imaginations have bin heaped together into those disputations, even as it were into a sinkhole and filthy puddle, namely, of Purgatory, of vows, of oblation for the dead, & many others. Seeing therefore, that purgatory (as they call it,) cannot be affirmed, it is a kind of ungodliness so to institute an oblation, to deliver the dead out of torments. Although yet if there were any purgatory, yet could not the supper of the Lord be transferred for the dead.
If our Aduersaryes doe say, That those tormentes are not therefore layed vppon them, that thereby repentaunce might grow: but that they shoulde bee as satisfactions for sinnes here committed, this opiniō is a great deale more too be refused. For the doctrine of Satisfactions, which the Sentenciaries haue deuised, is both false and vngodly.1 And truely very many lyes & false imaginations haue byn heaped togeather into those disputations, euen as it were into a sinkehole and filthy puddle, namely, of Purgatory, of vowes, of oblatiō for the dead, & many others. Seing therfore, that purgatory (as they cal it,) cānot be affirmed, it is a kind of vngodlines so to institute an oblatiō, to deliuer ye dead out of torments. Although yet if there were any purgatory, yet coulde not the supper of the Lorde be transferred for the dead.
- 1Confutation of Satisfactions.
But why do I here dispute? The first mention of Purgatory began of sights or visions,1