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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
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.
§ 15. Of Glorification.
1. AS to the state of Believers after this life, they teach, that Heaven was shut, till Christs passion.
2. That the thief converted on the Cross, was the first of all believers that entered into the heavenly Paradise.
2. That the thief converted on the Cross, was the first of all believers that entred into the heavenly Paradice.
3. They make three receptacles of Souls after death, besides heaven and the place of the damned, viz. limbus patrum, limbus infantum, and Purgatory, to which they also add a certain kind of flourishing, light, sweet, and pleasant Meadow, in which they place certain souls who suffer nothing, but remain there for a while, because they are not yet fit for the beatifical vision.