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Falfes extinguifheth Faith, as Darkness doth Light. Evil is Black like Ink, and Faith is white like Snow, and pure like Water, and Evil blackens Faith, as Ink doth Snow and Water. Moreover, Evil and the True of Faith cannot be joined together, any otherwife than as a ftinking Body is joined with an aromatic, or fweet fcented one, or as Urine is joined with well-flavoured Wine; nor can they abide together any otherwife, than as a putrid Carcafe ond a living Man would abide together in one Bed, or as a Wolf would abide with a Flock of Sheep in their Fold, or a Hawk under the fame Cover with Doves, or a Fox in the fame Pen with Poultry.

384. THAT THROUGHOUT ALL CHRISTENDOM THERE IS NO FAITH AMONGST THOSE, WHO REPROBATE THE LORD AND THE WORD, NOTWITHSTANDING THE MORALITY AND RATIONALITY OF THEIR LIVES, AND THAT THEY EVEN SPEAK, AND TEACH, AND WRITE ABOUT FAITH.

This follows as a Confequence from what was proved above; for it was fhewn, that the One only and true Faith is directed towards the Lord, and derived from Him, and that all Faith which is not directed towards Him, and derived from Him, is not fpiritual Faith, but natural; and Faith merely natural hath not in it the Effence of Faith., Moreover, Faith is derived from the Word, and can have no other Source, inafmuch as the Word is from the Lord, and confequently the Lord is in the Word; wherefore he faith, that "He is the Word," John i. 1, 2. Hence it follows, that whofoever reprobateth the Word, reprobateth the Lord alfo, because they cohere together as One, and further, that whofoever reprobateth either the Lord, or the Word, reprobateth also the Church, inafmuch as the Church hath it's Existence from the Lord by Means of the Word; and again, that whofoever reprobateth the Church, fhutteth himself out from Heaven, becaufe the Church is an Introduction into Heaven, and they who are shut out from Heaven are amongst the Damned, and have no Faith. The Reafon why they have no Faith, who reprobate the Lord and the Word, notwithflanding the Morality and Rationality of their Lives, and that they speak, and teach, and write about Faith, is, because their moral Life is not fpiritual, but natural, as alfo their Rationality is not spiritual, but natural, and Morality and Rationality merely natural are in themfelves dead, confequently they have no

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more Faith than dead Men. The mere natural Man, who in Refpect to Faith is dead, can indeed converfe and teach about Faith, about Charity, and about God, but not from and under the Influence of Faith, of Charity, or of God. That thofe only have Faith, who believe on the Lord, and that others have no Faith, is evident from the following Paffages, "He that believeth on the Son is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of the Only-begotten Son of God," John iii. 18. " He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting Life; and he that believeth not on the Son fhall not fee Life, but the Wrath of God abideth on him," John iii. 36. Jefus faid, "When the Spirit of Truth cometh, he will reprove the World of Sin, because they believe not on Me," John xvi. 8, 9; and to the Jews," Except ye believe that I am, ye shall die in your Sins," John viii. 24. Wherefore David faith, " I will preach the Law, whereof the Lord hath faid nuto me, Thou art my Son, this Day have I begotten thee: Kifs the Son, left he be angry, and Jo ye perish from the right Way; blessed are all they that trust in Him," Pfalm ii. 7, 12. That in the Confummation of the Age, which is the last Time of the Church, there will be no Faith exifting, in Confequence of none being directed towards the Lord, as the Son of God, as God of Heaven and Earth, and as One with the Father, is foretold by the Lord, where he faith, "That there shall be the Abomination of Defolation, and great Tribulation, fuch as was not from the Beginning of the World, nor ever shall be; and that the Sun fhall be darkened, and the Moon fhall not give her Light, and the Stars fhall fall from Heaven," Matt. xxiv. 15, 21, 29; and in the Revelation,

That Satan fhall be loofed out of his Prifon, and all go out to deceive the Nations, which are in the four Quarters of the Earth, the Number of whom is as the Sand of the Sea. Chap. xx. 7, 8. And because the Lord forefaw that this would be the Cafe, therefore he faid, "NEVERTHELESS, WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMETH, SHALL HE FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH?"

Luke xviii. 8. By when

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385. To the above I shall fubjoin the following MEMORA BLE RELATIONS,

FIRST. A certain Angel once faid to me, If thou defireft to fee clearly the Nature of FAITH and CHARITY, and thereby what Faith is when feparate from Charity, and what it is when joined with Charity, I will thew thee a visible Reprefentation of it. And I replied, Shew it me; and he said, Inftead of Faith and Charity, fubftitute Light and Heat, and conceive Faith to be Light, and Charity to be Heat, and thou wilt fee clearly what I mean; Faith in it's Effence is the Truth of Wifdom, and Charity in it's Effence is the Affection of Love, and the Truth of Wisdom in Heaven is Light, and the Affection of Love in Heaven is Heat; the Light and Heat which the Angels feel and enjoy, are in their Effence Nothing elfe; hence thou mayeft fee clearly what Faith is when feparate from Charity, and what it is when united with Charity Faith feparate from Charity is like Winter's Light, and Faith joined with Charity is like the Light in Spring; Winter's Light, which is Light feparate from Heat, and in Confequence thereof joined with Cold, ftrips the Trees of their Leaves, kills every green Herb, makes the Ground hard, and freezes the Water; but the Light in Spring, which is Light joined with Heat, caufeth the Trees to vegetate, firft into Leaves, then into Bloffoms, and laftly into Fruits it openeth and fofteneth the Ground, whereby it yieldeth Grafs, Herbs, Flowers, and Fruits; and it alfo diffolveth the Ice, fo that the Waters can flow from their Fountains. Exactly fimilar is the Cafe with Faith and Charity; Faith feparate from Charity deadens all Things, and Faith joined with Charity enlivens all Things. The Nature, of such Deadening, and Enlivening, may be feen vifibly in our fpiritual World, because here Faith is Light, and Charity Heat; for where Faith is joined with Charity, there are paradifiacal Gardens, flowery Walks, and verdant Groves, gay and delightful, in Proportion to fuch Conjunction; but where Faith is feparate from Charity, there doth not grow fo much as a Blade of Grafs, nor any green Thing, except it be on Thorns and Briers. There were ftanding at a little Distance from us fome of the Clergy, whom the Angel called Juftifiers and Sanctifiers of Men by Faith alone, and alfo Arcanifts, that is, Dealers in Myfteries; we related to them the fame Things concerning Charity and Faith, and likewife gave them ocular Demonftration of their Truth, but when we asked them whe

ther they believed it to be fo, they turned their Backs upon us, and faid, We did not hear you; whereupon we raised our Voices, and cried, Hear us now then; but immediately they ftopped their Ears with both Hands, and exclaimed, We are not difpofed to hear.

After this, I converfed with the Angel concerning Faith in a State of Separation from Charity, and I acquainted him, that I had been permitted to know, by fenfible Experience, that Faith, in fuch a State, is like the Light in Winter, for that, during the space of feveral Years, Spirits had pafled before me, which were influenced by various Kinds of Faith, and that whenfoever those approached, which had separated Faith from Charity, fuch a cold Numbnefs feized my Feet, and from thence rofe up to my Loins and Breast, that I almost fancied my whole bodily Life would depart from me; and this would actually have been the Cafe, had not the Lord fubdued thofe Spirits, and thereby delivered me. This Circumftance appeared furprizing to me, that thofe Spirits themselves did not feel any Senfation of Cold in themfelves, as they confeffed to me; wherefore I compared them to Fith under Ice, which have no Senfation of Cold, inafmuch as their Life, and of Confequence their Nature in itfelf is cold. I perceived then that that Cold flowed from the infatuated Light of their Faith, in like Manner as natural Cold arifeth from marshy and fulphureous Ground, in the Depth of Winter, after Sun-fet, as Travellers often experience. Such Spirits may be com pared alfo to Mountains of Ice, feparated from their Places in Northern Climates, and carried to and fro in the Ocean, of which it is related, that when they come near a Ship, they inftantly cause the Sailors to shiver with Cold; wherefore a Company of thofe Spirits, who are under the Influence of Faith feparate from Charity, may be likened unto fuch icy Mountains, and without much Impropriety may be called fuch Mountains. We learn from the Word, that Faith without Charity is dead, but the Caufe of it's Death hath been ✪ hitherto unknown; I will therefore take this Opportunity of unfolding it: The Death of Faith feparate from Charity is a Confequence of the Cold, with which Faith being affected expires like a Bird in a severe Froft, which first dies as to it's Eye-fight, and at the fame Time as to it's Power of flying,

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and laftly as to Refpiration, and then falls down headlong from the Tree where it perched, and is buried in the Snow.

386. THE SECOND MEMORABLE RELATION.

Awaking one Morning from Sleep, I faw two Angels de. fcending out of Heaven, one from the Southern Quarter of Heaven, and the other from the Eastern Quarter, each in his respective Chariot, drawn by white Horfes; the Chariot, wherein the Angel from the Southern Quarter was conveyed, fhone bright like Silver, and the Chariot, wherein the Angel from the Eaftern Quarter was conveyed, fhone bright like Gold, and the Reins, which they held in their Hands, glittered like the flaming Light of the Morning Star. Thus these two Angels appeared to me at a Diftance, but when they came near, they did not appear in Chariots, but in their own Angelic Form, which is Human; he who came from the Eaftern Quarter of Heaven, was clad in bright purple Raiment, and he who came from the Southern Quarter, in Raiment of a blue Violet Colour. As foon as they reached the inferior Regions below the Heavens, they ran to meet each other, as if they ftrove which should be first, and mutually embraced, and kiffed each other. I was informed, that these two Angels, during their Abode on Earth, had been joined together in the Bond of an interior Friendship, but that now one was in the Eaftern Heaven, and the other in the Southern; in the Eaftern Heaven are fuch as are under the Influence of Love from the Lord, and in the Southern Heaven are fuch as are under the Influence of Wisdom from the Lord. When they had conversed together fome Time about the magnificent Objects and Scenery contained in their refpec tive Heavens, they entered upon a Difcuffion of this Queftion, Whether Heaven, in it's Effence, be Love, or whether it be Wisdom; in this they agreed, that one derived it's Origin from the other, but the Debate was, which was the Primitive, and which the Derivative. The Angel, who belonged to the Heaven of Wisdom, then afked the other, What is Love? and he replied, That Love originating in the Lord, as the Sun, is the vital Heat of Angels and Men, confequently the Effe of their Life; and that the Derivations of Love are called Affections, and that by them are produced Perceptions, and from Perceptions Thoughts; whence it follows, that Wifdom in it's Origin is Love, coufequently that

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