Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 20

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20. If anyone comes to them who is of a different nature and discordant in affections and consequent thoughts, they order him to leave, and when he goes, he everywhere finds the gates shut, on which account he is taken to other gates in order to find a way out, but nevertheless discovers these shut, too. Meanwhile they inspire in him a desire to leave; and this goes on until he is so vexed that he can no longer endure it, and then finally he is let out; and once let out, he does not return because of the state of distress into which he was driven. The Dutch know better than any others in the Christian domain what is fantasy and what is real, so that they cannot be deluded as others can.


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