PROTESTANTISM
All these traditions passed into Romanism. This is why
we read in the note of the English Romish Version (the Douay) on Luke
16:
�The bosom of Abraham is the
resting place of all them that died in
perfect state of grace before Christ's time �
heaven, before, being shut
from men. It is called in Zachary a lake without
water, and sometime a
prison, but most commonly, of the Divines, 'Limbus
Patrum', for that it is
thought to have been the higher part, or brim, of
hell,� etc.
Our Protestant friends do not recognize this fact; and hence, they have
not wholly purged themselves from Romish error. The Jews corrupted their
religion by taking over the Pagan teachings of Greek Mythology. Romanism
adopted these Jewish traditions of prayers for the dead and added others
of her own; and the Reformed Churches took over Romish traditions
connected with the so-called �intermediate State,� which they should
have purged out.
Instead of completing the Reformation in respect to such heathen
traditions, they are still clinging to them to-day; and so tenaciously,
that they are giving Romanists and Spiritists all they want as the
foundation for their false teachings; while they reserve their wrath for
those who, like ourselves, prefer to believe God's truth in opposition
to the first great lie of the Old Serpent.
But once see the truth of God's word, that �death� means death;
and cease to read the word as meaning life � and away goes the only
ground for the worship of the Virgin Mary, the invocation of saints,
prayers to or for the dead; and all the vapourings and falsehoods of
�lying spirits� and �teachings of demons� (I Timothy 4:1,2), who would
deceive, by personating deceased persons of whom God declares their
thoughts have perished.
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