why he didn't address the original subject. So I'll finish with the scripture
pertaining to Purgatory.
1 Peter 3: 19
19 In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison:
( This is proof of a third place, or middle state of souls: for these spirits in
prison, to whom Christ went to preach, after his death, were not in heaven;
nor yet in the hell of the ****ed because heaven is no prison and Christ
did not go to preach to the ****ed.)
Matt 5: 26 -- Luke 12: 58, 59
26 Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay
the last farthing.
2 Tim 1: 16,18
Paul prays for his dead friend Onesiphorus
1 Cor 3: 12, 15
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, stubble:
13 Every man' s work shall be manifest; for the day of
the Lord shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire; and the fire
shall try every man' s work, of what sort it is.
14 If any man' s work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.
15 If any man' s work burn, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be
saved, yet so as by fire.
Upon this foundation: The foundation is Christ and his doctrine: or
the true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this
foundation gold, silver, and precious stones, signifies the more
perfect preaching and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and
stubble, such preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who
affected the pomp of words and human eloquence) and such
practice as is mixed with much imperfection, and many lesser sins.
Now the day of the Lord, and his fiery trial, (in the particular
judgment immediately after death,) shall make manifest of what sort
every man's work has been: of which, during this life, it is hard to
make a judgment. For then the fire of God's judgment shall try
every man's work. And they, whose works, like wood, hay, and
stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works being
found to be of no value; yet they themselves, having built upon the
right foundation, (by living and dying in the true faith and in the state
of grace, though with some imperfection,) shall be saved yet so as
by fire; being liable to this punishment, by reason of the wood, hay,
and stubble, which was mixed with their building.