114. The following should be appended to what has now been said: first, for us all, Christian charity is actually a matter of faithfully performing a useful occupation. If we turn our backs on evils because they are sins, we are daily doing what is good, and are ourselves the useful functions we should be in the body politic. This means that the larger body is being cared for, and so is each member in particular. Second, all the other things we do [outside of our occupation] are not works of charity, strictly speaking, but are either further reflections of our charity, or else simply good deeds or things we are properly obligated to do.
Last Judgment (Posthumous) #262
262. 4) What faith arising from charity is, and faith apart from charity. 1
Footnotes:
1. The manuscript contains the following additions here, struck through, it seems, to delete them:
Present in summary here what faith is without goodness, 1) that it has no truth in it; 2) that it has destroyed the church; 3) that it has falsified the truth of the Word; 4) that it is the dragon, the he-goat, Cain, Philistia, Reuben.
Present this also in ten articles as before.
