Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

310 POPERY CONDEMNED EY
ought to be punished,
are not in their nature so
cftcnsive as to deserve eternal misery ; and
hence it has been defined to be " a place or
" state, where souls, departing this life with
" the guilt of some venial sins, are purged and
" purified before their admission into heaven."
This view of some sins the R. attempts to illustrate
in the 26th page of the Remarks.
" We
*'
Catholics," says he, *' do think that some
*' lies are venial, and some are damnable, with-
" out thinking any lie either laudable or lawful
''
for we have not yet learnt to believe even on
*' the evangelical authority of the Wirtemberg
^'
Evangelist Martin, that all sins are equally
damnable j we think that an act o/ intemperance
on the King's Birth day is not so damnable
a crime as murder ; we think that an
amusing jest is not inductive of perdition,
though atrocious calumny most certainly is,
and this our doctrine is so evidently founded
on reason, that Horace, an Epicurean poet,
" believed it,"
This heathen poet must be allowed to have
been excellently skilled in Christian morality.
Might not the R. also have told us, how Horace
has extolled fornication and drunkenness, and
even sung the praises of sodomy ; and thca
^Jiown us, that all these have been practised in
the Romish Church, as being evidently founded
in reason Protestants have never judged
Popish