PURGATORY AND SUNDAY by John Milner

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Feb 6, 1855

PURGATORY AND SUNDAY.

By John Milner

EXTRACT FROM MILNER’S END OF CONTROVERSY:

LETTER XLIII.

"REV. SIR :—In the natural order of our controversies, this is the proper place to treat of purgatory and prayers for the dead. On this subject Bishop Porteus begins with saying, 'There is no scripture proof of the existence of purgatory; heaven and hell we read of perpetually in the Bible; but purgatory is never met with; though surely if there be such a place, Christ and his apostles would not have concealed it from us.' I might expose the inconclusiveness of this argument by the following parallel one: The scripture nowhere commands us to keep the first day of the week holy; we perpetually read of sanctifying the Sabbath, or Saturday, but never meet with the Sunday as a day of obligation; though if there be any such obligation, Christ and his apostles would not have concealed it from us."