Monday, June 7, 2010

no one pleasing to God outside the Church

"Search where you will: out of this Church, you shall find nothing but death. To be short, he which is not in the Church hath no God: he hath his own proper judgement, his fantasy, and his own presumption for his God: he maketh himself an Idol, and doth worship only his own imagination in place of God. If such a man calleth himself a Christian, that is as the Devil often sayeth he is Christ, and if if he be killed for his heresy, that is no martydom, but the reward of his heresy...dying he goeth...eternally to the darkness, which he hath worshiped, and to his head, which is the Devil. There is no martyrdom nor death precious before God but in the Catholic Church..."

from The Firme Foundation of the Catholic Religion by Jean de Caumont