4626. CONCERNING CHARITY AND FAITH. Charity is given without faith, as with infants and gentiles: these easily suffer themselves to be instructed, as is clear from the things which have been told concerning infants and gentiles: faith, however, without charity, is not given. Take, for instance, these three things. 1st. The belief that the Lord redeemed man, and saved him from hell. They who do not love the Lord, or the neighbor, do not believe this. If they say that they believe, it is with the mouth, not with the heart. To believe from the heart is from love. [The person] is not affected without love. Wherefore the faith [in this case] is of the mouth. 2nd. The belief that all good is from the Lord. Unless there be charity, neither, consequently, is there good: wherefore, neither does [the man] know what good truly is. He supposes what is corporeal and worldly to be good itself; wherefore, he does not believe good itself to be from the Lord To him, good itself is entirely unknown. 3rd. He who believes that all evil is from himself will be in charity, and so he will know how to distinguish between good and evil. He who is not in charity, supposes good to be evil, and evil to be good; wherefore, he has no faith. Hence it may be evident, that there is never any faith capable of existing unless there be charity; or, what is the same, that it can never be implanted save in the good of charity, nor be produced save by the good of charity, that is, by the new will.