Chapter 17 - The Immortality of Souls
The chosen departed are in peace, and rest from their labors; not that they sleep and
are lost in oblivion as some fanatics hold, for they are delivered from all fear and
torment, and all the temptations to which we and all God's chosen are subject in this
life, and because of which we are called the Kirk militant. On the other hand, the
reprobate and unfaithful departed have anguish, torment, and pain which cannot be
expressed. Neither the one nor the other is in such sleep that they feel no joy or
torment, as is testified by Christ's parable in St. Luke XVI, his words to the thief, and
the words of the souls crying under the altar, "O Lord, thou that art righteous and
just, how long shalt thou not revenge our blood upon those that dwell in the earth?"
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