Our consent.
We hold a Christian Purgatorie, according as the word of God hath set downe the same vnto vs. And first of all by this Purgatorie we vnderstand the afflictions of Gods children here on earth. Ier. 3. The people afflicted say, thou hast sent a fire into our bones. Psal. 65.12. We haue gone through water and fire. Malach. 3.3. The children of Levi must be purified in a purging fire of affli∣ction. 1. Pet. 1.7. Afflictions are called the fi••rie triall, whereby men are clensed from their corruptions, as golde from the drosse by the fire. Secondly, the blood of Christ is a purgatorie of our sinnes, 1. Ioh. 1.7. Christs blood purgeth vs from all our sinnes. Heb. 9.14. It purgeth our consciences from dead workes. And Christ baptizeth with the holy Ghost and with fire: because our inward washing is by the blood of Christ: and the holy Ghost is as fire to consume and abolish the inward corruption of nature. To this effect saith Origen,* 1.1 Without doubt, we shall feele the vnquenchable fire, vnles we shall now intreat the Lord to send downe from heauen a purgatorie fire vnto vs, whereby worldly de∣sires may he vtterly consumed in our mindes. August. Suppose the mercie of God is thy purgatorie.* 1.2