Canons 3–5: degrees of punishment; against extinction and finite torment
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(3) Just as in eternal life there will be degrees of glory in the elect, so in the damned there will be degrees of punishments from deserts.Equality in the defect of God's vision and in eternity; distinction of degrees from deserts.
(4) That eternal death is nothing other than eternal extinction of soul and body is a harmful and most absurd Socinian opinion.
(5) That the hour of torments will at last have some end — Origenists and some Anabaptists dream, but in vain: eternal death and life are opposed in the same sense; the worm does not die; the smoke ascends forever and ever.
Latin
3. Quemadmodum in vita aeterna futuri sunt gradus gloriae in electis: ita in damnatis gradus erunt suppliciorum ex meritis. Aequalitas in defectu visionis Dei & in aeternitate; distinctio graduum ex meritis. 4. Mortem aeternam nihil aliud esse quam aeternam animae & corporis extinctionem — noxium & absurdissimum Socinianorum placitum. 5. Horam cruciatuum aliquem tandem finem habituros — Origenistae & Anabaptistae quidam somniant, sed frustra: mors & vita aeterna eodem sensu opponuntur; vermis non moritur; fumus in saecula saeculorum.