A12406:929
The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…
The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.
London: printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 1593
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Whither the glutton and the beggar are gone, thither must we all, that is to Abraham's bosom, or hell fire: there are but two kinds of men, and therefore but two ways, and where then is Purgatory, which the best of the fathers confesseth that he could never find in Scripture? Therefore take heed of hell, for Purgatory is but a scar babe. Furthermore, when Paul saith, that he shall go to Christ, this seems to resolve the old question often debated among the simple people, once deluded, whether the souls of men departed, walk after death, and appear unto men, exhorting them to this or that, as Gregory or some counterfeit reporteth in his Dialogues.
Whither the glutton and the beggar are gone, thither must we all, that is to Abrahams bosome, or hell fire: there are but two kindes of men, and therefore but two waies, and where then is Purgatorie, which the best of the fathers confesseth that he could neuer finde in Scripture? Therefore take heed of hell, for Purgatorie is but a scarre babe. Furthermore, when Paul sayth, that he shall goe to Christ, this seemes to resolue the old question often debated among the simple people, once deluded, whether the soules of men departed, walke after death, and appeare vnto men, exhorting them to this or that, as Gregorie or some counterfeit reporteth in his Dialogues.
The Apostles before their full groweth, ⟨p. 533⟩might seem to be encumbered with this error, because when they saw Christ walking upon the waters, they said, It is a spirit: and when Peter knocked at the door in the night, they said to Rhode a Damsel, It is his Angel: Act. 12. 15. Which error was drawn from the elusion of Satan, and vulgar opinion received from Pythagoras, which taught that the souls of men departed, did return into the bodies of other men after death, either for correction, or for reward: if they were good souls, then they were preferred to better men: if they had been bad souls, then they were cast into worse bodies then they had before: a fine Philosophical dream.