Saint Augustine his enchiridion to Laurence, or, The chiefe and principall heads of all Christian religion a most profitable booke to all those which desire to haue a most compendious briefe of Augustines doctrine, out of Augustine himselfe, when he was old, being repurged, by the old manuscript, of many faults and vnusuall wordes, wherewith it formerly flowed.

CHAP. 66.

That the force and effect of remis∣sion of sinnes, as also the pu∣nishment of our sins, is rather found and felt in the world to come, then in this world.

FOr, Remission of sinnes is or∣dained chiefly in respect of the day of iudgement which is to come. For, in this life that saying of Ecclesiasticus, falleth out to bee true; That there is an heauie yoak vpon the sonnes of Adam, from the day of their comming out of their mothers woombe, vntill the day of their burial into the earth, the mother of all mankind; insomuch, as wee see that infants, after their baptisme, bee tormented with the affliction of many euills. Whereby we may learne, that whatsoeuer is accomplished by the sacraments for our saluation, is rather to giue vs hope of fu∣ture

ioyes, then hould or adep∣tion of present felicities. For, in this life many sinnes seeme to be pardoned and not reuenged by any correction, but their punish∣ments reserued till the later day (which is not vainely as it is pro∣perly called the day of iudge∣ment, wherein the iudge of the quicke and the dead, shall appeare): Euen as on the con∣trary, many sins bee reuenged in this world, and not withstanding they be here not forgiuen, shal not stand vp against vs in the world to come. Wherfore tou∣ching certaine of those tempo∣rall punishments which bee in∣flicted in this life vpō sinners, to those whose faults are forgiuen, the Apostle saith, For, if we would iudge our selues, wee should not be iudged by God. But, when wee are indged, wee are chastned of the Lord, because we should not be cō∣demned with the world.