Gods arrow against atheists. By Henry SmithGods arrovve against atheists. By Henrie Smith

4 Now for the office of Christ, (for his person & his office be two chief things which we are all to regard.) The Papists will yield with us that it consisteth in these three points, namely: that he is both a Prophet, a Priest, and a king. This I say in words they will acknowledge, but in deeds and verity they do not, for in respect that Christ is our Prophet which should and did reveal his Fathers will unto the world, we ought to be content with his voice, and search no further then he hath revealed in his Scriptures. But the Papists are not so contented, but they hold that their unwritten traditions and Popish Cannons, must also be received upon like peril of damnation, as before it showed concerning the Priesthood of Christ. It consisteth in two things, namely the offering up of himself once for a full perfect and sufficient Sacrifice: And his intercession with his Father, which yet remaineth also and shall do to the worlds end. Both these the Papists annihilates as I will prove. First concerning the Sacrifice and Oblation of Christ, there is no doubt but being once done upon the Cross, it was a most full, perfect and satisfactory Sacrifice to deliver both a culpa & pana: from the guiltiness and the punishment incident to that guiltiness: for otherwise how should ⟨image 55⟩Christ be Jesus, that is a Saviour,¹ if he did not deliver us from the punishment, as well as from the sin. But the Papists hold that Christ hath obtained by his passion, remission for our sins going before Baptism: but sins committed after Baptism, that his passion hath taken away only the guiltiness, but that the punishment remaineth notwithstanding, which is to be paid in purgatory (as they say) and to be redeemed by our own satisfactions, and so they make the punishment due to sin (which is indeed eternal in hell) to be but temporary in purgatory upon satisfactions (as they have devised). But what can a man give for the ransom of his soul? And it appeareth before, even by the report of Augustine that the Catholic faith believeth in Purgatory, such as they have invented.² For as Saint John saith the blood of Christ is that which purgeth us from all sin, and that his most precious blood is the only Purgatory we hold, and doth deliver his people from the punishment due to sins, aswell as from sins: