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Chapter LVII.—And cause persecution.
Nor can the
devils persuade men that there will be no conflagration for the
punishment of the wicked; as they were unable to effect that Christ
should be hidden after He came. world" title="182" id="viii.ii.lvii-p1.4"/>But this
only can they effect, that they who live irrationally, and were brought
up licentiously in wicked customs, and are prejudiced in their own
opinions, should kill and hate us; whom we not only do not hate, but, as
is proved, pity and endeavour to lead to repentance. For we do not fear
death, since it is acknowledged we must surely die; and there is nothing
new, but all things continue the same in this administration of things;
and if satiety overtakes those who enjoy even one year of these things,
they ought to give heed to our doctrines, that they may live eternally
free both from suffering and from want. But if they believe that there is
nothing after death, but declare that those who die pass into
insensibility, then they become our benefactors when they set us free
from sufferings and necessities of this life, and prove themselves to be
wicked, and inhuman, and bigoted. For they kill us with no intention of
delivering us, but cut us off that we may be deprived of life and
pleasure. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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