Last Judgment (Cont.) (Chadwick) n. 58

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58. All the Roman Catholics, provided they were not outright idolaters, but sincerely performed good actions as the result of their religious principles and also looked to the Lord, are taken to communities which have been set up next to the Reformed; there they receive instruction, have the Word read to them and the Lord is the subject of sermons. Those who accept these truths and put them into practice in life are raised up into heaven and become angels. There are many such communities of them in each quarter, and they are guarded on all sides against the guiles and cunning tricks of the monks, and against the Babylonian ferment. Moreover, all their children are in heaven, since, having been brought up by angels under the Lord's guidance, they know nothing of their parents' false religious beliefs.


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