Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

318 POPERY COKDEMNED BY
" go, it shall either be carried to hell, or exalt-
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ed to heaven *."
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Of a third place^^ says Augustine, " we
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are entirely ignorant ; nor do we find it in the
" holy scriptures f. There is no middle place to
" any^ that he who is not with Christ, should
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not be with the devil J.
In whatever state the
" day of death finds any one, he shall be judged
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accordingly at the last day ||.*'
It is
not without reason that the R. has boasted
of the orthodoxy of the Fathers.
Their works
are calculated to extort, even from Protestant
heretics,
a confession of their excellence for deciding
some controverted points in religion.
The belief of the existence of a purgatory is
far from being so universal and uninterrupted as
the R. imagines. Even as late as the twelfth
century, it was not universally received in the
Romish Church.
" Some do affirm,*' says Otto
Frisingensis, anno 1140, " that there is in hell
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a place of purgatory, in which such as are to
" be saved, are either only troubled with dark-
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ness, or decocted with the fire of expiation §."
To this many other testimonies
might be added,
if necessary. At present, I will only subjoin the
sentiments of Joannes Roffensis, the Pope's martyr
in the days of Henry VIII., who spoke upon
this
* In Amos 9. f Hvpngnost. Lib. 5. % De
Peccat. Mer. et Remiss, c. 28.
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Ad Hesych. Ep. 80,.
§ Chron. Lib. 8. c. 26.