4 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—“Brags of Purgatory” & “Temples of God became shops to get money”
4 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—“Brags of Purgatory” & “Temples of God became shops to get money”
Jewel, John. “The Apology of the Church of England.” Project Gutenberg. 5 Aug 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17678/17678-h/17678-h.htm. Accessed 1 Aug 2015.
And as for their brags they are wont to make of their
purgatory, though we know it is not a thing so very late risen amongst them,
yet is it no better than a blockish and an old wives’ device. Augustine,
indeed, sometime saith, there is such a certain place: sometime he denieth not,
but there may be such a one; sometime he doubteth; sometime again he utterly
denieth it to be, and thinketh that men are therein deceived by a certain
natural good will they bear their friends departed. But yet of this one
error hath there grown up such a harvest of these mass-mongers, the masses
being sold abroad commonly in every corner, the temples of God became shops to
get money: and silly souls were persuaded that nothing was more necessary to be
bought. Indeed, there was nothing more gainful for these men to sell.
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