Certain spirits, as before [3169-71], maintain they are made righteous because they have done nothing evil, even though they have thought it, for which reason it was imparted to me that the matter stands thus: whatever comes into the thought, not the will, is not a sin. Then if it comes into the will, or something like the will, and one thinks this is a sin, against the Lord's Word, and will burden one's conscience, and so shakes it off, neither can this be a sin, but is a temptation. But if something comes into the thought, and into the will, that one desires to carry out provided outer restraints do not hinder-this is a sin, just as the Lord said, he who looks at a girl with lust, has already committed whoredom [Matt. 5:28]. 1748, 16 Sept.