Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 17
“ I permit the pope to make articles of faith for himself and his faithful-such as the soul is the substantial form of. the human body, the soul is immortal, with all those monstrous opinions to be found in the Roman dunghill of decretals. ”
Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 17
“ Now we have given proof that even men highly esteemed among men deny and give good reasons for denying the theory of the souls immortality. Some, however, will turn to the word spirit, and claim that the Scripture use of this word will sustain that which they are forced to concede is not supported by the use of the word soul. ”
Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 17
“ In putting departed souls in heaven, hell and purgatory-, you destroy the arguments wherewith Christ and Paul prove the resurrection. * * * The true faith putteth the resurrection, which we be warned to look for every hour. The heathen philosophers, denying that, did put that the souls did ever live. And the pope joineth the spiritual doctrine of Christ and the fleshly doctrine of philosophers together – things so contrary that they cannot agree. ”
