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

Those which are of that opinion, do think that after ¹that one is dead, there is no other pains, then of Purgatory, for to purge sins: A little after he saith: We confess that in this mortal life, there is a certain Purgatory pain. It seemeth that he somewhat agreeth that the tribulations and adversities that man suffereth ²in this world, do serve him for a purgation of his sins: the which yet nevertheless, they dare not to attribute but to Jesus Christ. Although that we do commonly say, of him which hath had much evil & grief in this world, ye he hath had here his Purgatory. For that tasteth much of the opinion of Plato. But Saint Augustin doth not make there mention, of any paine• of purgatory, after this life, ⟨image 201⟩but he saith plainly that the souls of the faithful, do ³rest after the death of the body. But what wilt thou more clearer, then when he sayeth: Some do believe that those also which have not abandoned the name of Christ, and which have been baptized in his Church, and have not belie cut off from the same, through any schism or heresy, that in whatsoever sins they have lived in, the which they shall not deface and put away through penance, nor redeemed through doing of alms beedes, but shall persevere and continue in them continually, until the last day of their life, shall be saved through the fire: Although that according to the greatness of their sins and misdeeds, that fire shall be ⁴diuturnal but not eternal. But me thinketh that those that do believe this, and yet nevertheless are catholics, are deceived through mans benevolence. For ⁵the holy Scripture, if one do look and search in it, answereth an other thing. Thou seest here Eusebius, that be speaketh of the fire of Purgatory, whatsoever thing he hath spoken at other time. And saith moreover, that there is but two ways, to wit, one of damnation and ⁶