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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Almost all Godly men must expect the fire of Purgatory: and consequently none of them can be rationally willing to dye: Because this life is better than Purgatory; and no man will desire to go from hence into the fire: And so by making all men unwilling to dye, it destroyeth a heavenly mind, and killeth faith, and hope, and love, and holy joy, and tempteth men to be worldlings, and to love this life better than the next. Yea, it tempteth men to be afraid of Martyrdom, lest (dying in Venial sins, as all do) they go to a Purgatory fire, more terrible than Martyrdom.
XXIII. Reason: Their Doctrine is not only contrary to many express Texts of Holy Scripture, but also contrary to it self: One Pope and one Council having decreed one thing, and another the clean contrary.
XXIV. Reason: All this evil is made more pernicious, by that professed Impenitence which is included in the conceit of their Churches Infallibility: For they that hold themselves Infallible, do profess never to Repent, of any thing in which they suppose themselves to be so. And as Repentance is the great evidence of the pardon of sin; so Impenitency is that mortal sign of an unpardoned soul, without which no sin doth qualify the sinner to be Excommunicated by man, or damned by God: And a sin materially less, is more Mortal unrepented of, than a greater truly lamented and forsaken.
XXIV. Reason: All this evil is made more pernicious, by that professed Impenitence which is included in the conceit of their Churches Infallibility: For they that hold themselves Infallible, do profess never to Repent, of any thing in which they suppose themselves to be so. And as Repentance is the great evidence of the pardon of sin; so Impenitency is that mortal sign of an unpardoned soul, without which no sin doth qualifie the sinner to be Excommunicated by man, or damned by God: And a sin materially less, is more Mortal unrepented of, than a greater truly lamented and forsaken.