cause in the fame Proportion he is principled in Good, as was shewn above: This is confirmed alfo by it's Contrary, that whofoever doth not fhun Evils as Sins, hath not Faith, because he is in Evil, and Evil hath an inward Hatred against Truth; outwardly indeed it can put on a friendly Appearance, and endure, yea love, that Truth fhould be in the Understanding; but when the Outward is put off, as is the Cafe after Death, then Truth, which was thus for worldly Reasons received in a friendly Manner, is first caft off, afterwards is denied to be Truth, and finally is held in Aversion.

46. The Faith of a wicked Man is intellectual Faith, in which there is no Good from the Will, confequently it is a deadFaith, which is like the Refpiration of the Lungs without it's Animation from the Heart; Understanding alfo corresponds to the Lungs, and Will to the Heart: It may be compared likewife with a beauti

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ful Strumpet, adorned with Purple and Gold, who is inwardly infected with a malignant Difeafe; a Strumpet alfo corresponds to the Falfification of Truth, and hence in the Word is ufed to fignify fuch Falfification: It is alfo like a Tree abounding with Leaves, and yielding no Fruit, which the Gardener cuts down; Tree likewife fignifies a Man, it's Leaves and Bloffoms the Truths of Faith, and Fruit the Good of Love. But it is otherwise with Faith in the Underflanding in which there is Good proceeding from the Will; this Faith is alive, and is like the Refpiration of the Lungs in which there is Animation from the Heart; and it is like a beautiful Wife whom Chastity endears to her Hufband; it is alfo like a Tree that bears Fruit.

47. There are feveral Things which appear to appertain to Faith alone, as that God is, that the Lord who is God is a Redeemer and Saviour, that there is a Heaven

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Heaven and a Hell, that there is a Life after Death, and feveral other Things of like Nature, of which it is not faid that they are to be done, but that they are to be believed; thefe Things which appertain to Faith are alfo dead with the Man who is principled in Evil, but alive with him who is principled in Good: The Reason is, because the Man who is principled in Good, doeth well by Virtue of a good Will, and thinketh well by Virtue of a right Understanding, not only before the World, but also in private when he is left to himself; but it is otherwife with the Man who is principled in Evil.

48. It is faid, that those Things appear to appertain to Faith alone; but the thinking Principle in the Understanding derives it's Existence from the Love-Principle of the Will, which is the Effe of the thinking Principle of the Underftanding, as was faid above, n. 43; for whatfoever any one wills from the Love-Prin

ciple, that he wills to do, he wills to think,, he wills to understand, and he wills to fpeak; or, what is the fame Thing, whatfoever any one loves in the Ground of the Will, that he loves to do, he loves to think, he loves to understand, and he loves to fpeak. It is further to be obferved, that when a Man fhuns Evil as Sin, then he is in the Lord, as was fhewn above, and the Lord operates all Things: Wherefore to thofe that afked him," what they Should do that they might work the Works of God?" He replied, "This is the Work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath Jent," John vi. 28; to believe on the Lord is not only to think that He is, but it is alfo to his Words, as he teacheth in other Places.

49. That they who are in Evils have no Faith, how foever they may fancy that they have, was fhewn by feveral Cases of fuch in the fpiritual World: They were conducted to an heavenly Society, whence

the Spiritual Principle of the Faith of the Angels entered into the Interiors of their Faith who were thus conducted, whereby they perceived, that they had only a natural or external Principle of Faith, and not it's fpiritual or internal Principle; wherefore they themselves confefled that they had no Faith, and that they had perfuaded themselves in the World, that to believe, or to have Faith, confifted in thinking a Thing to be fo or fo, without Refpect to the Reason or Ground of it's being fo. But it was perceived to be otherwife with the Faith of thofe who were not principled in Evil.

50. Hence it may be feen what fpiritual Faith is, and what Faith is not spiritual; fpiritual Faith appertaineth to . those who do not commit Sin, for they, who do not commit Sin, do Good, not from themselves but from the Lord, as was fhewn above, n. 18 to 31; and by Faith become spiritual: Faith with fuch