2. It is the doctrine of the Church that the above passage treats of the Coming of the Lord. Thence it is that there have been opened, by the Lord, arcana ¹ concerning heaven and hell, man's life after death, the Word and the last judgment. All these things have been written down in the Latin language and sent to all the Archbishops and Bishops of this kingdom [of Great Britain] and to the Nobility. So far, not a voice has been heard. This is a sign that the things which pertain to heaven and the Church do not affect them interiorly. It also shows that it is now the very end of the Church and indeed that the Church no longer exists. For the Church exists where the Lord is worshipped and the Word is read with enlightenment. ² . . . Summaries of the truth presented in the little works referred to may be seen at the end of this work.

Footnotes:

529. Something similar is true in the case of people who are in a state of good from the Lord. If they from their will and intellect or purposefully and deliberately refrain from one evil because it is a sin, they refrain from them all; and this still more if they refrain from several. For as soon as anyone purposefully or deliberately refrains from some evil because it is a sin, he is kept by the Lord in a purpose to refrain from the rest. Consequently, if he then does evil unwittingly or under the sway of some overwhelming lust of the body, still it is not imputed to him, because he did not purpose it to himself, nor does he defend it in himself.

A person comes into this purpose if examines himself once or twice a year and repents of the evil that he finds in himself. Not so one who never examines himself.

This makes clear who it is to whom sin is not imputed, and who it is to whom it is imputed.