A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

Moreover, to give it farther countenance (as one-lie must be thatched with another, or it will quickly rain through) they have fancied a separation to be made between guilt and punishment, so as that when the guilt is fully remitted and pardoned, yet there may punishment remain on the account of sin. For this is the case of them in Purgatory, their sins are pardoned, so as that the Guilt of them shall not bind them over to eternal damnation, though the wages of sin is death, yet they must be variously ⟨p. 256⟩punished for the sins that are forgiven. But as this is contradictory in it self, it being utterly impossible, there should be any punishment properly so called, but where there is guilt as the cause of it, so it is highly injurious both to the Grace of God and blood of Christ, in procuring and giving out such a lame pardon of sins, as should leave room for punishment next to that which is eternal.

These are some of the rotten Props, which they have fixed on the minds of persons credulous and superstitious, terrified with guilt and darkness to support this tottering deformed Image, set up in the room of the efficacy of the blood of Christ, to purge the souls and consciences of Believers from sin,

But that whereby it is principally established and set up, is the darkness, ignorance, guilt, fear, terror of conscience, accompanied with a love of sin, that the most among them are subject and obnoxious unto, being disquieted, perplexed, and tormented with these things, and utterly ignorant of the true and only way of their removal and deliverance from them, they greedily embrace this sorry provision for their present ease and relief, being accommodated unto the utmost that humane or Diabolical craft can extend unto, to abate their fear, ease their torments, and to give security unto their superstitious minds. And hereby it is become to be the life and soul of their Religion, diffusing it self into all the parts and concerns of it, more trusted unto then either God or Christ, or the Gospel.