Verse 15. And the quality of this advancing state of the implantation of truth in good is perpetual and successive from the state of the initiation and vivification thereof by holy obedience to a further state of victory over evil and error resulting in one of rest and peace.

9113. Conscience in a member of the Church is formed by the truths of faith received from the Word, or from religious teachings drawn from the Word, according to his acceptance of them in his heart. For when a person has a knowledge of the truths of faith and understands them in his own particular way, and then wills and does them, conscience takes shape in him. Acceptance in the heart is acceptance in the will, for a person's will is what is called the heart.