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10. The obligations of charity are all things that a manought to do besides those above mentioned (187–188)11. There are diversions of charity (189–198)Appendix1. The first of charity is to look to the Lord and shun evilsas sins (199–208)2. The second is to do good to the neighbor (209–211)12.* There is no church where there is no truth of faith;and no religion where there is no good of life (212–213)3. The neighbor . . . is the fellow citizen, a smaller andgreater society, one’s native country, and the human race(214)4. The neighbor is to be loved according to his spiritualgood, and thence according to his moral, civil, and naturalgood (215)Order and Arrangement [of the Subject]*The numbering is as found in the text.—Editor
CHARITY 221Translator’s NoteThis treatise on charity was written about 1766. It was notpublished by Swedenborg, but the autograph manuscript ispreserved in the library of the Royal Academy of Sciences,Stockholm; and has been reproduced in the photolithographicmanuscripts, volume 8. We have followed the Latin text of SamuelH. Worcester, who transcribed it from the photolithographicmanuscripts.The treatise is a fragment, apparently the first draft of a work notcompleted. Nevertheless it gives invaluable instruction on this mostimportant subject, and in a very practical form.John Whitehead
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Page 7 and 8: CHARITY 223is to shun them as diabo
Page 9 and 10: CHARITY 225the man is within it, as
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Page 13 and 14: CHARITY 229eternal life, and yet do
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Page 21 and 22: CHARITY 237an essence. Therefore wh
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Page 27 and 28: CHARITY 24392. It is known that suc
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Page 31 and 32: CHARITY 247114. (5) Whatever procee
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CHARITY 271diversions vary accordin
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CHARITY 273diversions are the only
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CHARITY 275(2) No one can have char
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CHARITY 277the Lord, he would not d
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CHARITY 279far he does good from Go
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CHARITY 281himself. And because the
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CHARITY 283206. (6) As far as anyon
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CHARITY 285neighbor does not love h
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CHARITY 287evils in oneself, and re
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CHARITY 289213. But that these thin
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CHARITY 2915. The signs of charity
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