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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.
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.
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 adde a certain kind of flourishing, light, sweet, and pleasant Meadow, in which they place certain souls who suffer nothing, but remaine there for a while, because they are not yet fit for the beatifical vision.
4. That the souls of the faithful before Christs resurrection were in a subterraneous pit, which they call limbus Patrum.
5. That the fathers dead before Christs ascension were not happy.