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But Paul saith, per semetipsum purgatio facta: "By himself," and by none other, Christ "made purgation" and satisfaction for the whole world.
Si accusatio sit, et purgatio male succedat, judicet Episcopus. Leges Cnuti, 53. Leges Cnuti, 19. Bracton, Lib. III., Tract. 2, cap. 10. Leges Hen. I. cap. 8. Si quis terram defenderit testimonio provinciæ, &c. Leges Cnuti, 76: And sethe land gewerod hebbe be scyre gewitnesse.
When any one says that that is mysticism, he is not wrong. Being developed on the three successive ways of purgatio, illuminatio, and unio, this mysticism is no less logical than the religious mysticism that with its mortifications, if it were only rightly understood, would accomplish the same purpose. Mortification is, as the word itself says, the endeavor for a certain kind of death.
This ordeal was called the Judicium Dei, and sometimes the Vulgaris Purgatio, and might also be tried by several other methods. One was to hold in the hand, unhurt, a piece of red-hot iron, of the weight of one, two, or three pounds.
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