1627. * True belief is not at all possible in any man or spirit, from mere learning, and trying from their own effort to acquire faith for themselves by their own power
The following, although very difficult to understand, and impossible to believe for a person on earth or a spirit not yet having true faith, is nevertheless true, as I have been instructed by actual experience. * 1626 is omitted in the original.
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