Purgatory
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
purgatory · an incomprehensible fire
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The doctrine of a purifying fire that cleanses lesser sins after death.
We are taught by our infallible church, that those stains of sin, contracted through human frailty, and which have not deserved the eternal anger of the Almighty, are to be purged away, in another life, by an incomprehensible fire.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Catholic doctrine of purgatory, named as one of the beliefs the proposed recusancy oath requires abjuring.
wherein they shall abjure and renounce the Pope’s supremacy, the doctrine of transubstantiation, purgatory, worshipping of the consecrated host, crucifixes and images;