Scripture mistaken the ground of Protestants and common plea of all new reformers against the ancient Catholicke religion of England : many texts quite mistaken by Nouelists are lay'd open and redressed in this treatis[e] by Iohn Spenser.

Conc. Trid. sess. 25. Decreto de Purgatorio

Praecipit sancta Synodus, vt sanam de Pur∣gatorio doctrinam, à sanctis Patribus, & sacris Coneiliis traditam, à Christi fidelibus credi, teneri, doceri, & vbique praedicari diligenter studeant. Apud rudem verò plebem difficilio∣res, ac subtiliores quaestiones, quaeque ad aedi∣ficationem non faciunt, & ex quibus plerum∣que nulla fit pietatis accessio, à popularibus concionibus secludantur. Incerta item vel quae specie falsi laborant, euulgari, ac tractari non permittant. Ea verò quae ad curiositatem quandam, aut superstitionem spectant, vel tur∣pe lucrum sapiunt, tanquam scandala, & fide∣lium offendicula prohibeant.

The holy Synode commands the Bishops that they take diligent care, that the sound doctrine of Purgatory, deliuered by the holy Fathers, and the sacred Councils be beleeued, held, taught, and preached, by the faithfull of Christ. But that amongst the common sort of people, all difficult, and subtile questions, which make not for edification, & by which commonly there is noe accesse to piety, be secluded from popular sermons. But those things which tend to curiosity, or which tast of base lucre, as being scandalls, and offenses of the faithfull, they are to prohibite.

In these two places we see, 1. That none

but iust persones suffer in Purgatory, 2. That those paines are only the remainder of such temporall paines, dew after the remission of sinne, and eternall punishment, which they deserued in this life. 3. That the Church of Rome, forbids all temporall gaines to be made, of the doctrine of Purgatory, where by it appeares how injurious the aspersion of some of our Aduersaries is to the Church of Rome. in accusing her, to haue inuented Pur∣gatory, not to gaine soules, but mony. 4. All difficult questions, are here excluded from or∣dinary sermons, to common people, and all curiosities forbidden.