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“For they are not only destitute of any testimonies of Scripture in favour of it, but none of the examples of the saints there recorded exhibit any thing like it.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · observation
“But the Scripture administers another consolation, far better and more substantial, when it declares that “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord;” and adds as a reason, “that they may rest from their labours.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight
In February 1537 from Geneva, Calvin warns Megander about Caroli’s teaching that prayer can aid the dead’s hastened rise, denounces his disruptive behavior, and argues for calling a council to unify doctrine.
[39] A pseudonyme which Calvin sometimes made use of in his Latin correspondence. Some how or other it has so happened that in the hurry of writing I omitted what by no means I had intended. It was to exhort you and the other brethren in a few words, but most heartily, to the cultivation of peace, for the preservation of which you ought all of you to strive the more earnestly as Satan watches intently for its overth…
Hobbes rejects New Testament texts used for purgatory, especially Matthew 12:32 on forgiveness for sins against the Holy Ghost, suggesting alternative meanings about church authority or possible repentance after resurrection, but denying any clear purgatory.
Places Of The New Testament For Purgatory Answered But he alledgeth other places of the New Testament, that are not so easie to be answered: And first that of Matth. 12.32. "Whosoever speaketh a word against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not bee forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to come:" Where he will have Purgatory to be the W…
Calvin argues that prayers for the dead lack Scripture, saints’ examples, and divine command, despite being practiced for over thirteen hundred years; he links the custom’s spread to sorrow, superstition, and later “Popery,” and distinguishes uncertain ancient beliefs from confident purgatory doctrine.
and power of the Holy Spirit. Wherefore, whoever have corrupted the pure gold of the Divine word with this filth of purgatory, must necessarily suffer the loss of their work. X. Our opponents will reply, that it has been a very ancient opinion in the Church. Paul removes this objection when he comprehends even his own age in this sentence, where he denounces, that all must suffer the loss of their work, who, in the …
At the mountain foot, Virgil and Dante ascend beside a steep rock, debate limits of reason, meet Manfredi who explains his death and purgatorial waiting, including prayer’s power to shorten penance.
And what the foremost does the others do, Huddling themselves against her, if she stop, Simple and quiet and the wherefore know not; So moving to approach us thereupon I saw the leader of that fortunate flock, Modest in face and dignified in gait. As soon as those in the advance saw broken The light upon the ground at my right side, So that from me the shadow reached the rock, They stopped, and bac…
A group of spirits who died by violence begs Dante for prayers, then narrates how they were reconciled to God, including Fano and Romagna, Buonconte da Montefeltro’s death at Casentino, and Archiano river’s role in his disappearance.
“This folk that presses unto us is great, And cometh to implore thee,” said the Poet; “So still go onward, and in going listen.” “O soul that goest to beatitude With the same members wherewith thou wast born,” Shouting they came, “a little stay thy steps, Look, if thou e’er hast any of us seen, So that o’er yonder thou bear news of him; Ah, why dost thou go on? Ah, why not stay? Long since we all …