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CHAP. V.

Urthermore; That all we who are born of Adam by the way of Natural Generation, are born Children of Wrath, with the guilt of Original Sin, incurred by the difobedience of Adam, in whom we all finned, and which we all committed in him; for which fin, Adam loft for himself, and us, Holiness and. Righteousness, and fo that guilt of fin is derived to all of us by Generation, we having all finned in him, as the Apoftle St. Paul tells us, that by one Man Sin entred into the World, and by Sin Death, and fo Death paffed upon all Men, all having finned in him, but notwithstanding this guilt is derived to us by Generation; nevertheless our Souls are not derived by Generation as our Bodies are, but are created by God of nothing, and by the Divine Ordination infufed into our Bodies, at the. time when they are perfectly formed and organized, and in the inftant in which they are infufed into our Bodies, they contract the guilt of Original Sin, which we committed in Adam, and for which we were all expelled the Kingdom of Heaven, and deprived of God for ever; but which is now pardoned by Holy Baptifm, by which our Souls are cleansed from the guilt of that fin, and of Children of Wrath, and Aliens from Glory, we are made the blefled Sons of God, and Heirs of Heaven; wherein likewise all

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our other fins and actual tranfgreffions, where there are any, together with all the punishments due to the fame, are forgiven.

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CHAP. VI.

Urthermore; That the Souls of all thofe that have committed no fin after Baptifm, and of those who having committed fins, have done condign Penance, and have made an entire and equal fatisfaction for them, are carried immediately into Heaven, where they behold God, Three and One as he is; and do partake of the Divine Vifion, in proportion to the diverfity of their Merits, fome more perfectly than others, and in the fame manner they who die in any Actual Mortal fin, without having done condign punishment for it; or only in Original fin, do go ftraightway down into Hell, there to be tormented with Eternal punishments, though unequal, according to the measure of their guilt.

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CHAP. VII.

Urthermore; That all Chriftians departing this life in Charity, and having truly repented of the fins they have committed, before they have made full fatisfaction to the Divine Justice for the fame, are at their death carried into Purgatory, where their guilt is purged away by

Fire, and other punishments in fuch a space of time as by the Divine Ordination is fuitable to their Quality, or until they have entirely satisfied for them, after which they are carried up into Glory, there to enjoy God; and that in Purgatory the Prayers, Alms, and other Works of Piety that are performed by the Faithful that are alive, for the Faithful that are dead, are profitable to them; but above all, the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, for their being relaxed from the punishments that they fuffer, and for the shortning of their banishment from Heaven.

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CHA P. VIII.

Urthermore, That at the day of Judgment, our Bodies, tho' crumbled into duft and ashes, shall be raised up the fame that they were in this Life, and be reunited to their Souls, those of the Righteous to be cloathed with Glory, and to reign with Chrift for ever in the Heavens ; and thofe of the Wicked, to be together with their fouls tormented for ever in the Company of Devils in the Eternal and real Fire of Hell.

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CHAP. IX.

Urthermore, That in the beginning, and in Time God created all things Visible and Invifible, Corporeal and Spiritual, and the Empyrean Heavens full of Angels, of whom, thofe that continued fubject to God were confirmed in Grace, enjoying God with all the perfections and Gifts wherewith they were created, as those who disobeyed him fell into Hell, which God fo foon as they finned made for them, where they are tormented for ever with the rigour of Juftice; not only with punishments of lofs, in being Eternally deprived of the Divine Vision, which they were created to have enjoyed, but with real Fire, and other Eternal Torments alfo; and do tempt men, endeavouring to do them all the mischief they are able, out of envy, for the Bleffings that are referved for the Juft, and which they have forfeited by their fins, and out of hatred they have for God and his Works, and that intrinfical Malice they are hardned in.

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CHAP. X.

Urthermore, That the Bleffed Angels and Saints that reign with Chrift in the Heavens are to be venerated, and invok'd by the Faithful, defiring of God a Remedy for our wants

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through their Interceffion; and of them that they would intercede for us, which they do daily by offering up our Prayers and Petitions to God; That the Bodies and Reliques of Saints ought to be had in veneration, in being carefully kept, kiffed and adored by the Faithful, and placed under the Holy Altars, and other confecrated places, upon the account of their having been lively Members of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Spirit, and because they are to be raised again at the day of Judgment,and and clothed withEternal Glory in Heaven,and God vouchsafes many Bleffings upon Earth by them.

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CHAP. XI.

Urthermore, That the Images of our Lord Christ, and of our Lady the Glorious Virgin Mary, and of the Holy Angels that are painted after our manner, and of other Saints which the Church believes to be in Heaven, ought to he kept and used in all decent places; not only in the houses of the Faithful, but chiefly in Churches and Altars, and to be reverenced and adored with due veneration, and with the fame that is due to the Perfons they reprefent; not that we believe that there is any thing of Divinity or*Virtue in them for which they ought to be honoured, or that we put our Hope and Confidence in

*Wirtue.] If there is nothing of Virtue in one Image more than another, why do People go fo many hundred miles to pray to fome particular Images of the

Virgin Mary, when there is scarce a Church or Chappel in their way, wherein there is not an image of her.

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