In my generic definition of nationalism, I delineated earthly good and heavenly good. I did this because, as I argue in the next chapter, ordering people to heavenly life is a natural end for even the generic nation; that is, it is neither a new command nor something introduced by the Gospel. Had Adam not fallen, the nations of his progeny would have ordered themselves to heavenly life. Thus, heavenly good is an end of the nation. Since the Gospel is now the sole means to heavenly life, nations ought to order themselves to the Gospel in the interest of their heavenly good. “In Christ” modifies
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