If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galations v:16-25.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded

if life, and peace.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die, but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans viii:6-13.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye bave your fruit unto boliness, and the end everlasting life.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans vi:22, 23.

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness, and true boliness. I Thessalonians iv:7.

I

THE PERFECT MAN

WILL make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Isaiah xiii:12.

Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. St. Matthew v:48.

Lord.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the
Psalm cxix:1.

The whole length, breadth, and height of the perfect man's character signify holiness, truth and good. "That in the Word numbers, and measures signify things celestial, and spiritual. They who are in the internal sense, as are good spirits, and angels, are beyond all such things as are earthly, corporeal, or all that is of the body, and merely of this world. That a man is called righteous who does what is true therefrom, which also is to do righteousness, and judgment; also the perfect man is one who is so from holiness, or the good of charity.

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"The times, and states of man's regeneration in general, and in particular are divided into six, and are called the days of his creation; for by degrees, from being not a man at all, he becomes, at first something of one, and so by little, and little, attains to the sixth day in which he becomes an image of God. The Lord continually fights for him against evils, and falsities, and by combats confirms him in truth, and good. The time of the combat is the time of the Lord's working; and therefore in the Prophets the regenerate man is called the work of the fingers of God. Nor does He rest until love acts as principal; then the combat ceases. When the work has so far advanced that faith is conjoined with love, it is called very good, because the Lord then actuates him, as His likeness. (At the end of the sixth day the evil spirits depart, and good spirits take their place, and the man is introduced into heaven, or into the celestial

paradise. The celestial man is the seventh day which as the Lord has worked during the six days is called His Work, and as all combats then cease, the Lord is said to rest from all His work. On this account the seventh day was sanctified, and called the Sabbath from a Hebrew word meaning rest. And thus was man created, formed, and made. Every subsequent inmost church of the Lord is also a Sabbath, and so is every regenerate person when he becomes celestial, because he is a likeness of the Lord. Those who are being regenerated do not all arrive at this state. The greatest part at this day, attain only the first state, some only the second, others the third, fourth, or fifth, few the sixth; and scarcely anyone the seventh."

"The quality of the celestial man is that he acts not according to his own desires, but according to the good pleasures of the Lord which is his desire. Thus he enjoys internal peace, and happiness. The nature of the tranquillity of peace of the external man, on the cessation of combat, or of the unrest caused by cupidities, and falsities, can be known only to those who are acquainted with a state of peace. The state is so delightful that it surpasses every idea of delight. It is not only a cessation of combat, but is life proceeding from interior peace. The truths of faith, and the goods of love, which derive their delight from the delight of peace, are then born. The celestial, or perfect man, is also a man from his love of obedience to the Lord."

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:2.

He also loves the Lord with all his soul, and with all his might, and others, as well as himself. He is also a man of unquestionable integrity, and honor, and a man to be trusted at all times.

"In a general sense every one is called a man who has human understanding, for man is man, by virtue of understanding, and according thereto, one person is more a man than another. That the Most Ancient church, or Adam by name, and every true church, and hence those who are of the church, or who live from love to the

Lord, and from faith in Him, are especially called man. The quality of the Most Ancient church denotes that man was taken from the ground, or regenerated by the Lord, for the word Adam means ground, and that afterwards when he was made celestial he became most eminently Man by virtue of faith originating in love to the Lord. That they were called Man, that is, at the end of the sixth day, which answers to the evening of the Sabbath, or when the seventh day began; for the seventh day, or Sabbath is the celestial man."

"The things which are of the Lord are called in the Word remains, they are knowledges of faith which have been learned from infancy, and which are stored up in his soul until the day of his death. If there were no remains in a man he would not be a man, but much viler than a brute; and the fewer the remains there are, the less is he a man, the more remains there are the more is he a man. Unless remains were preserved by the Lord in everyone, he must needs perish eternally, since spiritual, and celestial life are in the remains. Now remains are not only the goods, and truths that a man has learned from the Lord's Word from infancy, and thus impressed on his memory, but they are all the states thence derived, such as states of good, and truth. These states together with the goods, and truths impressed on the memory are called remains, and if a man had no remains he must necessarily be in eternal damnation.

"Of man it should be said the Lord alone is Man and that from Him every celestial man, or celestial church is called man. That a likeness of God is a celestial man, and an image of God a spiritual man. Heaven signifies the internal man, and earth the external man before regeneration. Heaven is with man in his internal, thus in his willing, and thinking from love, and faith, and thence in his external, which is in acting, and speaking from love, and faith. But heaven is not in man's external without the internal, for all hypocrites can act, and speak well, but they cannot will, and think well." For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. I Peter iii:12.

"To live according to the knowledges of truth and good is to think that one must do thus, and not otherwise because it is commanded by the Lord in the Word. When man thus thinks and thus wills, and does, he becomes spiritual. Yet it is necessary for those within the church to believe in the Lord, and when they think of Him to think of His Divine in the His Human, since from His Divine Human everything of charity, and faith proceed. Knowledges which are external truths do not bring anyone into heaven; but the life itself, which is a life of uses implanted by means of knowledges for knowledges regarded in themselves are outside of heaven; but life acquired by means of knowledges is within heaven. A knowledge of the Bible is more to be desired than fine gold, for in understanding, believing, and obeying it there is great reward, both here, and in the hereafter. Everybody who can should have a Bible. It will be life to his soul, and wisdom to salvation. Furthermore: it is through the Word that the Lord is present with a man and is conjoined with him, for the Lord is the Word, and, as it were, speaks with the man in it.”