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Show Pdr!.4.. Chard". OF THE KINGDOM}. my, 4; have-7 and confequently may engender perpetually, after the Refur. reétion, as they did before: For there is no place of SCl‘lpt'urc to the contrary. For St. Paul,fpeaking of the Relurreetion t t Cams.) underflandeth it onely of the Relurrefiion to Life Eternall; and not the Rcfiirreétion to Punilhment. And of the firfl, he faith that the Body is Some in Corruption, riu'fed in Imorroptiorz; jaw/z in Di 1015010", rAiftd in Honoor; [own in Weakrtefle, rmfcd in Power; mm 4 Naturall hotly, rat/ed a Spiritual] hooly : There is no fuch thing can be {aid of the bodies of them that rife to Punithment. So alfo our Saviour, when hee fpeaketh of the Nature of Man after the Refurteétion, meaneth, the Rcl‘urreé'tion to Lite Eternall,not t‘o Punilhment. The text is Luke 20. verfes 34. 35, 36. a fertile text. The Children ofthi: world marry, and are given in marriage, hut they that [ball he eowtea'morthy to ohtairzethat world, and the Re. furreflton from the dead, neither murmur are given in mitrridge: Neither can they die any more; for they are equal! to the Aizge/lr, and are the Children of God, [Icing the Children of the Reforrec'hare: The Children of this world, that are in the el'tatewhichAv dam left them in, {hall marry, and be given in marriage, that is, corrupt, and generate fuccelfively, whichis an Immortality of the Kind, but not of the Perfons of men : They are not worthy to be counted amongfl them that {ball obtain the next world, and an abfolute Refurreétion from the dead-7 but onely alhort time , as inmates of that world; and to the end onely to receive condign pu~ niihment For their contumaCy.The Elect are the onely children otthe Refurreétion, that isto fay, the {ole heirs ofEternall Lire :they on- ly can die no more: itis they that are equal] to the Angels , and thatsre the children ofGod53nd not the Reprobare. To the Re- 0 F .D A R KNE S S E. Chap. 44; {red thofe places to the proofe of a Purgatory : whereas it is manifelt‘ that the ceremonies of Mourning,and Faflinggv they are ufed fo) the (leather men, whofe life was not profitable tohen the Mourners th r are ufed tor honours fake to their perlons 5 and when death of'them be whore life the Mourners had bene tis done fbrthy fit, it proceed: from their parti cular dammage: And {0 David honoured Soul and Almemvrth his Falling ; and in the death of his owne child l'éCOHl- forted himf clfe,by receiving his ordinary food. ) ~ In the other places,which he alledgeth out or‘th e old Tefl amét there 18 not {0 much as any lhew,or coloui ofproofeflc brinv s in ever) text wherein there is the word Anger, or F1re,or Burr/1M Cor Furor"); or Clerflhg,in cale any ofthe Fathers have but in a Seiiiiion rliEiOiidall appliedit to the Doctrine of Purgatory, already beleeved. The firli y'erle of Flt/717e,; 7. 0 Lom' rehtz/ee me riot l7} thy wrath nor chit/l ei} m' m thy hot di'/Illi‘.l}/:'lr€ : \‘Vhat were this to Purg atory itiAuvulline had not applied the Wrath to the lire of Hell,and the Dl/jll PurgatoryfAnd what is it to Pureatorvahat of Iyai' c'ilfllz' to that ‘0" me 66. r r ‘We; ever/t throng/7 fire and water, dildf7/(1lt hiaughtefl' zts to a trio/[lp/irhe - and other the lIhC tt xts. (With which the Doe‘tors ot‘thoi‘c times entehdeil to adornearr extend their $crmons, or Commenta ries) haled to their purpoles by force of. wit 6 I i g . t n t M . . {351:}: he, l.illttl bctlitw{.liri plate mt ‘ the New Hlellament, that are not rtq-mribe t . e tin/a i unt" LILt : Andti , illth i‘ atolM , i itt/r. i2. 3:. Itho/oe ' ' -irer Acw 5- leftia f]‘_"fil"'i'r/I v: nu glin‘mi'r/l tl'r Sorm e oft/1.122, tit/lull he fore/"um hlm- hilt mtm for PM « "11.79."l‘ti'plfhhih'qt/IJgd/U/l the [lo/y (tho/l, I! [hit/l mil (Squaw; h'rh L‘,.Ilul'j‘v -7'-'}'l'~"‘ rte/{her m thxr n-orldgzor Jr! the wwlrlltt) tome -Where he "dill! ll.' ‘ 1' Al ‘« N .l. gatory tube-the \N'orltl townie, when in {time linnex' iiii 'beii~t'i'i probatethere remaineth after the Refurreetion,a Seemrl,:lnd [itermll yen," inch in [llh \\'i~rhl uere it t forgi ven: notw. ithll tvitlin" th it}; is Death : between which Refurreftionyand their Second,and Eternall death,is butatime ofl'unilhment and Torment; and to latt by ilk" t lull" ldmdatheh "asctlltoy Ltl by "Kurt, and l\t.1ll('ll in Scri ‘Lll:"' 1h: oldll' t‘eflion of finners thereunto, as long as the hllltl of Man by propagation {hall endure», which is Eternally. milieu of the Upon this Doctrine ofthe Naturall Eternity oflk'paratedSoulest 1 ‘ which is the Pre/em H'ozlzl, and lhall bee lelli'Ol'CLl/ln' lire-r :ititlthe t'~irl \YlllCllllLlll lKl'lirlfl‘ll the dry of liitheihcn t lbrit'atil eyerlilhni') '70"! "Wt" founded (asl laid) the Doe'trine of Purgatory. For luppohng liter» rd [0" "'14" nall Life by Grace onely,there is no Life, but the Life ot'the Body ; {ti}. and no lmmortality till the Rcfiiri'ection. The texts {or Purgatory alledged by Bellarmine out of the Canonical] Scripture of the old Teflament, are lirll, the Falling of Dir-wt! for 5414/ and Iomthm, mentionedtz Ii'mg5,i.tz.)-,and againe,(2 Som.3.35.) for the death or ni.1mlrli,tl tie are but three \Vnrhb: on: from the Cit lilllrl‘l tirlzl -. another from the l‘lootlaothe day or [titlucinent which Is (illiCLl thelt'urldtorome; imdi n which it is iittreed by Ill) the re drill b: no Purgatory : And therefore tl.e Vt'orltlio mind and Purgatorycm lllL'OHllll'Cni. But what then can brethr: meaninii oi thole our \..i.'it,iI:\ ii'oi tls.' l contelle they are very h trdly to b tare coriciled "shall the Doctrines now unanimou lly received: blurb" it any iiiztiiie, to conlellL the proiiiiindnellh or the Scripture to Failed to procure the recovery of his owne child ,aflbone as he Lne w it bee too great to be rounded by the lhoitnelle or'himianr ' iinilerllanthir' New vertheletle, I may propotind firth thmszs to tht t<>nlitlti'iiibn of more learned l)i\':nts,a» the text it {the litwc lluh. -Anil lirll {ct-int? ti) {peak was dead,he called {or meate. Seeing then the Soule hath an exiilence feparate from the Body, and nothing can be obtained by 111L115 l afling for the Soules that are already either in Hearcnpr Hell, it t'ol‘ rinzty,13to 1 36L! I‘ ; tut ' ‘ I " 'i " ‘ lidethl-~ . it lbciii y etlii1riceriiilhhi i iilifiiiigiii iiidd" . livluf Abner. This Falling ot‘Da'viddie faith,was for the obtaining oi tome~ thing for them at Liods hands, after their death -, became alter he had loweth thatthere be fome Soules tilde-ad inenahat are niitlie r in Heat ven,nor in Hell -, and therefore they mull l)(C in fome third place, which mull be Purgatory.And thus with hard llrainingdicc has wre- " fied eagainlltkge Holy (alloll, as bun-gothe third Perlbn'ot'thz ‘ ' ‘ hm'h (ihUfl ‘ rcf}[hi tire , LLXHCHL ltihn ellc of ottrohltat'iloiirgn bearing \\'1Il‘. ol'iences done to him while hee himfelte $3133:2:12:31215;!nyliigikhfiitii‘: wafsop taiithiand the Severity or‘th'c which "b r" l Pia] , , i) .- u tier ,1 ioiiiddeny their :uith otny, ionit 1. How Gholt. As it he thoiild lav, You flu: «mi-y t'r ! |