A Treatise Concerning Divine Love And Divine Wisdom, Extracted From the ...
A Treatise Concerning Divine Love And Divine Wisdom, Extracted From the ...
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
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6. Faith consists in knowing and thinking those truths, charity consists in willing and doing them. 7. Wherefore when the Divine Love of the Lord exists in charity with man, which is to will and to do those truths, the Divine Wisdom of the Lord exists with man in faith, which is to know and to think 28 Digitized by LjOOQIC 136 truths. 8. That the conjanction of chsntf and faith is reciprocal. Concerning Jove and charity. — 1. That the love of uses is charity. In all and singular things there ar...e these three (constituents), end, cause, and effect ; the end is that from which (any thing is produced), the cause is that by which (it is produced), and the effect is that ip which (it is produced) ; and when the end by (or through) the cause is in the effect, it then exists : in all love and its affection there is an end, and the end intends, or wills to do, what it loves, and the deed is its effect. The Lord is the end from which (any thing is produced), man is the cause by which, and use is the efr feet in which the end exists : the Ix)rd is the end from which (any thing is produced), be- cause from his Divine Love he perpetually intends, or wills to do, uses, that is, things good for the human race ; roan is the cause by which (any thing is produced), because he is in the love of uses, or may be, and in that love intends, or wills to do, uses, and uses are the effects in which the end exists ; uses are what are also called things good.
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