656. It was shown above what the combination of charity and faith is like in the case of those who believe in three Gods, while claiming to believe in one; namely, charity combines with faith solely in the external natural man. The reason is that such a person's mind is set on the idea of three gods, while his lips confess only one God. If therefore his mind at that instant were to enter into the confession of his lips, it would blot out the utterance of the words 'one God', and he would open his lips and blurt out the 'three gods' he was thinking about.