The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise

Theophilus. Thou canst not show unto me that he hath affirmed the Purgatory certainly: But I will declare unto thee places by the which he hath altogether abolished it. Mark how he hath put none other Purgatory, then the blood of Jesus Christ, he ¹saith, speaking of Porphyry a Platonist, that he hath not known Jesus Christ to be the beginning, through whose incarnation we are purged. For he should have then acknowledged a Purgatory. And in an other place, he saith: We have then the bictorye, in his name which hath taken mans flesh, and hath lived without sin, to the end that by him being the Priest and the sacrifice, we are made the remission of sins. That is to say, through the mediator of God and men, the man Jesus Christ, who in his own person hath purged our sins, and restored be again unto God. For men are not separated from God, ²but through sin, for which it lieth not in us through our own power and strength to purge them in this life, but therow the mercy God, through his clemency, not ⟨p. 194⟩through our power. For that virtue which is called ours, whatsoever it be, it is granted unto us through his goodness. Doth he not clearly show, that the purgation of sins is done in this life, and yet not through our own righteousness nor virtue? Holve can it then be done in the other life, through the virtue and merits of an other & Furthermore, he manifestly saith: the souls of the good men after they are ³separated from the body, are at rest, and we must not doubt of it: but those of the wicked, are punished until such time, as the bodies of those do rise again to eternal life: and of these here, to eternal death, which is called the second death. But is it possible to speak more clearly and purely of Jesus Christ and of the Purgatory that we have in him, then when he saith: ⁴Through his death, that is to say, by one only and true sacrifice, which hath been offered for us, he hath purged, abolished and put out all that that had any faults in us. Wherefore the higher power and those of authority do bold and keep us for to be punished: And by his resurrection hath called unto a new life we which were predestined: he hath justified those that he called, and glorified the justified. Behold words very clear. And speaking of the opinion of Plato, he saith: