Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 317
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King shuts the doors, and admits none : Af-
" ter our departure, we may not correct what was
" formerly amiss in us *."
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" He,'* says Chrysostom, " who in this life
shall not wash away his sins, shall find no con-
" solation hereafter ; this is the time of combat-
" ing, that of crowning f."
" Tell me,*' says he, " what is the meaning
" of these bright lamps at funerals Is it not,
" that we may bring forth the dead as victorious
" combatants Why are the hymns Is it not,
" because we glorify God for crowning him who
" is departed ; that he has freed him from la-
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hours and from the fear of death, having him
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with himself I"
" The heathen," says Lactantius, " speak of
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a bivium or two ways in the shades, relating
" to the dead ; we more truly say, that these
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two ways are heaven and hell ; for to the righ-
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teous immortality belongs, to the wicked ever-
" lasting death ||."
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No man," says Hilarius, " after this life,
" can be helped or delivered by the merits and
" works of another §."
*' When the soul," says Jerome, " freed from
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the bands of the body, shall have liberty to fly
" whither it will, or whither it is compelled to
* Haeres. 59.
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f In Gen. Horn. 5. % I'^ Heb.
Hem. 4.
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Instit. Lib. 6. c. 3. § In Mat. 25.