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trine, the justified and pardoned believer is still liable to God's wrath! The adopted, beloved, and sanctified child, is still subject to God's vengeance! God loves and hates, saves and destroys, at the same moment; and the same beings are at once reckoned with the elect and the reprobate, with angels and with devils! Can it be possible for absurdity, contradiction, and impiety to go beyond this? And yet this is the necessary, the inevitable consequence to which your doctrine leads.

Such, Sir, is your doctrine of temporal penalties for remitted sins—a doctrine unsupported by reason and experience, rejected by Scripture, contradictory to itself, and subversive of the Christian's hope of salvation. And yet it is on this doctrine that your whole body of doctrine concerning Satisfactions, Purgatory, and Indulgences vitally depend. Doubt that temporal penalties are by any Divine law now inflicted on sin repented of, and what need can there be for all the Satisfactions prescribed by you for the remission of temporal penalties? What necessity is there for Purgatory to complete those penalties not discharged in this life? What need for Indulgences to remit them? What need for Suffrages and Masses for the dead, to relieve souls from the fiery torments of Purgatory? These questions I leave for the present to your consideration, and beg to subscribe myself,

Your obedient Servant,

WILLIAM PALMER.

Oxford, April 24, 1841.

THIRD LETTER

ΤΟ

N. WISEMAN, D.D.

ON THE ROMISH DOCTRINE OF

SATISFACTIONS.

BY THE REV. WILLIAM PALMER, M.A.

OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD.

OXFORD,

JOHN HENRY PARKER;

J. G. F. AND J. RIVINGTON, LONDON.

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In my last Letter I demonstrated, that, according to the doctrines generally taught in the Church of Rome, a justified and sanctified person still remains subject to the wrath of God; that a beloved child of God has to dread His anger and His vengeance; that the same persons are at the same moment loved and hated by their Creator and Saviour. These conclusions are intimately and indissolubly connected with your belief, that temporal punishments remain to be endured after sin has been pardoned. They lie at the foundation of your doctrine of Satisfaction, Purgatory, and Indulgences. It is my intention to pursue this error into all its ramifications, and to expose the mass of dangerous errors and superstitions, and of absurd contradictions to which it leads, and in which it actually involves all your theologians.

On the present occasion, your doctrine of Satisfaction shall become the subject of discussion; and

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