PURGATORY
Proved, Illustrated, and set forth in a clear light.
My friends,
YOU all know, it ish a cushtomary ting vid de Clergy, fen dey are going to preach a Sharmon, dat dey vill be tak a text from shum particular plash of dey Scripture; but for dat very rashon, because he ish cushtomary, I vill not do it. For I love to be shingular; and you know shingularity in the right, ish never a crime yet.
And ash dere are a great many of you gather here upon dish occashon, shum vid an honest intention, no doubt, to be instructed; dan lay yourshelves open to de conviction of the truth, shum perhaps, to make shest of our Holy Decree and laugh at de fooleries of de Mass, as dey vil profanely speak: in short, as dere are a great many of you gather here, shum Phipsyterian shum Shurch of Englishman, and shum Roman Catholic, I shall preach you a sharmon in English, dat you vill all equally understand fat I vas shay.
And de shubject I shuse to insist upon as de most proper for dish occasion, ish Purgatory: (de most advantageous and beneficial doctrine of our Shurch,) de method I shall observe ish dish
First, I shall prove to you, dat dere ish really such a plash as Purgatory, or a Limbus Pratum where de shouls of all our friends, depart tish life, do go, and are purge from deir remaining shins and pollutions.
