10] St Augustine: Pain of purgatory is
far greater than in this life. (_Fasciculus Morum_, refers to
Ps-Augustine, _De vera et falsa penitencia_, 18:34 (PL 40)
"For as Y trowe he sayth, as ther is no
comparisoun betwexte a fir depeyntyd in a wal and a materiel fir that we mow se
brenne byfore us, ri3t so ther is no more comparison bitwexte the materiel fir
that we seeth brenne and the fir of purgatorye. ferthermore, alle the
turmentes that may be thou3t in this life, he seyth, as the rostyng of St
Laurence, the peynful stone castyng to the deth of St Stephen, the bitter
huldyng of St Bertholmeu, the peynful crucify3yng of St Peter, ne beth bute a
shadewe in regard of the peyne of
purgatorye."
