A27015:1248
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.
7. The faithful which depart, either with venial sins upon them, or with the guilt of punishment (the sin being before remitted) they cast into Purgatory, to be burnt there with corporeal fire, till they be fully purged.
8. That the suffrages of the Church such as the •• crifice of the Mass and prayer, penal and satisfactory works, as Alms-Deeds, Fasting, Pilgrimages, and the like, do profit the dead in Purgatory: and especially indulgences by which the satisfactory works of others are applied to them.
8. That the suffrages of the Church such as the •• crifice of the Mass and prayer, penal and satisfactory works, as Almes-Deeds, Fasting, Pilgrimages, and the like, do profit the dead in Purgatory: and especially indulgences by which the satisfactory works of others are applyed to them.
9. For the P•pe can communicate the prayers and good works of believers to them; whence it follows, as Albertus said, the condition of the rich in this case is better then the poor, because he hath wherewithal to get suffrages for him.