has been the aggrandisement and enrichment of
the papal priesthood and the subjection of the people. It contradicts
the Word of God, which declares that there is no condemnation to the
believer in Christ Jesus; that he hath eternal life; that for him to
depart is to be with Christ, to enjoy unalloyed, unending blessedness.
Protestants, therefore, hold that "the souls of believers are at their
death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into
glory."[124]

Between those who hold the doctrine of purgatory and believers in
universal restoration, there is not a little in common. Universalists
reject the Atonement, and say that God always punishes men for their
sins. The wicked must expect to suffer in the next world, but the mercy
of God will follow them, the punishment endured will in time effect
deliverance, and the result will finally be the restoration of all to
purity and happiness. They thus maintain with regard to all, what
Romanists hold respecting those who pass to purgatory, and both are to
be answered in the same way. We cannot make satisfaction, and we need
not, for Jesus has borne "our sins in his own body on the tree."[125] By
this "one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified";
so that "there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain
fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall
devour the adversaries."[126]

This clause has place in the Creed as a protest against the heresy of
Apollinaris, a Bishop of Laodicea, who taught that Christ did not assume
a human soul when He became incarnate. He thus denied the perfect
manhood of Christ, and in support of His doctrine appealed to the fact
that the Scripture says,[127] "The Word (in Greek, Logos) was made
flesh," "God was manifest in the flesh," while it is never said that He
was made spirit. He sought to establish a connection between the Divine
Logos and human flesh of such a kind that all the attributes of God
passed into the human nature and all the human attributes into the
Divine, while both together merged in one nature in Christ, who, being
neither man nor God, but a mixture of God and man, held a middle place.
His heresy found many supporters, though it was promptly met by Gregory
Nazianzen, who showed that the term "flesh" is used in Scripture to
denote the whole human nature, and that when Christ became incarnate He
took upon Him the complete nature of humanity, untainted by sin. Only
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