COncerning the place where Purgatorie is,* 1.1 there are many opinions: The first, of some who hold that the soule is there purged, where it sinned; and indeede that the soule is in diuers places purged, is probably gathered out of Gregory, l. 4. Dialog. cap. 40. and out of an Epistle of Petrus Damianus. But that all are punisht where they sinned, is not probable.
The second is, That the places of soules are not corporall, so held Austen, but he retracted it.
The third, That the place of punishment for the soule, is this world, &c.
The seuenth is, That not the earth, but the darke ayre, where the Diuels are, is the place of punish∣ment.
The eight is, the common opinion of Schoole∣men, That Purgatorie is in the bowels of the earth, neare to hell. Bellarm. l. 1. of Purgat. cap. 6. pag. 117.118.