1111. THAT LIFE AFTER DEATH IS OF SUCH A NATURE WAS NOT BELIEVED BY SOULS Souls of those who had been known to me during their life have often confessed that they had never believed that there would be such a state in the other life, when they would undergo so many changes and punishments and like things. Also, that they would never have imagined that in the life of the body they had believed in such falsities, and that the doctrine of the faith that alone is saving is such; especially so, when they observe that there is nothing in themselves, nor anything said by themselves as from themselves, that is not most criminal, and that only that which is from the Lord is good and true. Moreover, they confessed that scarcely any of them had believed that the Lord Jesus Christ governs the universe, both heaven and earth; besides innumerable other things which, because they were unheard of in the life of the body, also seemed to them incredible. 1748, Mar. 1.