2. The chief reason for writing a continuation about the Last Judgment is to make it known what was the state of the world and the church before the Last Judgment, and what it has since then become; and also, how the Last Judgment took place on the Reformed.
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31. A person's natural life counts for nothing, but it is his spiritual life in the natural life which does, since the natural is by itself lifeless. The life it appears to have comes from the life of the spiritual man. It is this which is judged, and it is a person's spiritual element which is meant by 'being judged according to one's deeds'. On all this see HEAVEN AND HELL, in the chapter entitled 'A person's nature after death is determined by his life in the world' (470-484).
