Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 352

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352. [345.] People do good out of obedience, and people do good from affection. A person does good out of obedience before he has fought against evils. This is a person's first state, and it may be a state of reformation; and one who is in this state and does not do evils is regenerated in the other life by combats against them, or through temptations or trials. Doing good from affection occurs when a person has fought against evils. This state is the person's state of regeneration. It is the inverse of the prior state.


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