Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 60

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60. [59.] The Papists' Saints

When Papists, monks especially, come into the other life, they seek out saints, each one the saint of his order, as do Jesuits; and they also find them, but when they speak with them, they find no more saintliness in them than in others. When questioned the saints say that they have no more power than others, and that those who did not worship the Lord, but only the Father, have no power and are among the contemptible, whom their companions regard with disdain. Some of them know that they have been canonized, and when they pride themselves on account of it they are mocked by their fellows. Some do not know. Most of them are in a lower earth. Some, too, are in hell-those who in the world aspired to sainthood-because they did so from the insane love of wishing to be invoked and worshiped as gods, and that love profanes all the sanctity of heaven. Nevertheless, monks, and especially Jesuits, conceal the fate of these people, and in public they lie, saying, because of their oath and obedience, that they are saints, even though they themselves laugh at them in their hearts.


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