HE believes, (contrary to all Rea∣son,) the Word of God, and all Antiquity, that (besides Heaven and Hell,) there is a third place, which his Church is pleas'd to call Purgatory; a place intended purely for those of his Communion, wh••re they may easily have admittance after this Life, with∣out danger of falling into Hell; for, that though Hell was designed first, for the punishment of Sinners; yet (that now, since the blessed discovery of Pur∣gatory,) Hell may easily be skip'd over, and an eternal Damnation avoided, for an exchange of some short Penalty un∣dergone in this Pope's Prison; where he never need fear to be detained long; for that, if he has but a friend left behind him, that will but say a few Hail-Maries for his Soul, or in his Testament did but remember to order a small sum to be presented to some M••ss Priest, he never need doubt of be∣ing soon releas'd; for that a Golden K••y will as infallibly open the Gates of Purgatory as of any other Prison wha••∣soever.
A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A twofold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of the popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years, fill'd it with fears and jealousies, and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess, with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principle grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. one of the Church of Rome ; to which is added, a book entituled, The doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, truly represented, in answer to the aforesaid book by a Prote
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- A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A twofold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of the popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years, fill'd it with fears and jealousies, and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess, with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principle grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. one of the Church of Rome ; to which is added, a book entituled, The doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, truly represented, in answer to the aforesaid book by a Prote
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- Gother, John, d. 1704.
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- 1686.
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"A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A twofold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of the popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years, fill'd it with fears and jealousies, and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess, with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principle grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. one of the Church of Rome ; to which is added, a book entituled, The doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, truly represented, in answer to the aforesaid book by a Prote." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41614.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.