457, 458; and this being the case, it is possible that that love may
exist with one married partner, and not at the same time with the other;
and that it may lie deeper hid than that the man (_homo_) himself can
observe any thing concerning it; and also it may be inscribed in a
successive progress of the life. The reason of this is, because that
love in its progress accompanies religion, and religion, as it is the
marriage of the Lord and the church, is the beginning and inoculation of
that love; wherefore conjugial love is imputed to every one after death
according to his spiritual rational life; and for him to whom that love
is imputed, a marriage in heaven is provided after his decease, whatever
has been his marriage in the world. From these considerations then
results this short concluding observation, that no inference is to be
drawn concerning any one, from appearances of marriages or of
adulteries, whereby to decide that he has conjugial love, or not;
wherefore _Judge not, lest ye be condemned_. Matt. vii. 1.
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532. To the above I will add the following MEMORABLE RELATION.
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