This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... that it is for some a purification by suffering. There is a horrible line in one of your popular hymns, which speaks of their enduring ' Pain above all earthly pain.' " "We are going on to a-second point before we have settled the first. This is not the way to come to a conclusion, but I must follow your ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... that it is for some a purification by suffering. There is a horrible line in one of your popular hymns, which speaks of their enduring ' Pain above all earthly pain.' " "We are going on to a-second point before we have settled the first. This is not the way to come to a conclusion, but I must follow your arguments wherever they may lead me. As to Purgatory, then, I maintain, and I could allege a number of passages to prove, that this doctrine was taught both in the Primitive and the Medieval Church. St. Clement of Alexandria, in the second century, speaks of ' a faithful man passing to the severest suffering, and punished still more (whilst he attains not yet, or not at all, to those things which he sees others partaking) for the completion of the penalty for siDS committed after baptism.' And St. Augustine, speaking of those who will be saved yet, so as by fire, adds, ' because it is said, " Thou shalt be saved," that fire is despised, yet assuredly, though " saved by fire," that fire will be more grievous than anything that man can suffer in this life.' These are actually the very words of the hymn you quoted." " I shall look out for both those passages. I had either never read or never noticed them. There is, however, to my mind, something contradictory between St. John's words, ' Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, ' and the idea of souls suffering after death." " If that is all you can say against us, we may leave this point, for you cannot mean that this is a blasphemous doctrine, which you could never accept. For my part, I cannot see anything in the Catholic doctrine on that point inconsistent with the Apostle's words. ' Those who die in the Lord '--that is, in the grace of God...
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