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CHARITY 274Appendix[The following appear in the author’s manuscript to be a second andsubsequent draft of the first two sections of the work, and of the title of thethird, the title and order of treatment of the fourth, and of the syllabus of thewhole work. They are not only important and interesting in themselves, butalso as presenting somewhat different phases of doctrinal truth on thesubject.]The first of charity is to look to the Lord and shun evils as sins1199. It is known that charity, or love towards the neighbor,consists in doing good to others. But it shall be shown in thefollowing pages how one is to do good, and to whom, that charitymay be charity. Every man knows that no one can do good whichin itself is good except from Him who is good itself, or good inHimself; that is, except from God. And everyone may also knowthat so long as a man is in evil, and by evil is with the devil, he cando no other than impure good, which outwardly appears as good,but inwardly is evil, which good is either Pharisaical, or for the sakeof merit. It is therefore necessary in the first place to set forth whata man must be, in order that the good which proceeds from himmay in itself be good, and thus the good of charity.200. This shall be shown in the following order: 32(1) No one can have charity unless from the Lord.32. [Annotation from the margin.] From Paul concerning love towards theneighbor: if it is asked what is first, whether to shun them as evils, or to love theneighbor.
CHARITY 275(2) No one can have charity from the Lord unless he shuns evils assins.(3) A man ought to shun evils as sins as if of himself and yet from theLord.(4) Insofar as anyone does not shun evils as sins, he remains in them.(5) So far as anyone does not take cognizance of and know what sinsare, so far he does not see but that he is without sins.(6) So far as anyone takes cognizance of and knows what sins are, sofar he can see them in himself, confess them before the Lord, and repentof them.(7) Good before repentance is not good, thus neither is charity.(8) Consequently, the first of charity is to look to the Lord and shunevils as sins, which is done by repentance.201. (1) No one can have charity except from the Lord. Here, as inthe following pages, we name only the Lord, because the Lord isthe only God; for he is the God of heaven and earth, as he himselfteaches. He and the Father are one, like the soul and body, as healso teaches. And he and the Holy Spirit are the same, as the Divinein himself, and the Divine from himself. So that he himself is theone and only God; and the Divine trinity is in his person, and isnamed the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Now because thewhole church and all religion is founded upon the idea of God, andupon the idea that God is one, and as this idea can in no wise existunless God is one in essence and in person, and unless this unity oftrinity and trinity of unity is in the Lord alone, therefore here nowat the beginning, and in what follows afterwards, we name the Lordonly. (See also Doctrine of the Lord, from the beginning to the end,and Divine Providence, n. 263.)
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