28. (28) Unless a New Church is raised up by the Lord no one call be saved, and this is meant by these words, Except those days should be shortened no flesh would be saved, Matthew xxiv 22. The reason is that the old church is founded upon justification by faith alone, and this upon an idea of three Gods. Hence all the blindness and stupidity, the unconcern and the sweeping away of religion, so that hardly anybody thinks about his spiritual welfare; and those who are well-versed in these matters and teach them think nothing about the welfare of their own souls or the souls of their hearers.