Verse 18. And now, therefore, the Lord is acknowledged from the operation of inmost good celestial, involving a holy state of innocence in fullness and free from falsity, and also the good of innocence in the external and internal man by co-operation and conjunction with the Lord, and thus full sanctification by that conjunction, both as to good and truth, and as to exterior truth and good, all acknowledged to be from the Lord through his pure love for man, and resulting in a further state of rest and peace.