4636. The sons of the most ancient Church were born almost in this way, namely into feelings of good, so that in their very feelings there was something of the good and truth that the doctrine of faith teaches, but still in the course of time it was given them by means of instruction, experience, inspiration and revelation to learn all the tenets of faith, to which they at once inwardly assented, so that they had an inner sight of them, because they agreed with their feelings.