True Christian Religion #363
363. However, so that this article of faith - that the Lord, charity and faith make one, just as in a person life, will and understanding do, and if they are divided, each of them is destroyed, like a pearl collapsing into dust - may be seen and recognised as truth, it needs to be discussed in the following sequence.
(i) The Lord flows into every human being with all His Divine love, all His Divine wisdom, and so with all His Divine life.
(ii) He does this likewise with the whole essence of faith and charity.
(iii) But how these are received by the person depends upon his form.
(iv) The person, however, who separates the Lord, charity and faith is not a form which can receive them, but rather one which destroys them.
James 4:13-16
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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
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Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
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But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
