Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4635

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4635. CONCERNING THE ORDER INTO WHICH MAN IS BORN. If man were without hereditary evil, he would be born into Divine order itself, namely, into love to the Lord, and love towards the neighbor, wherein would thus be implanted the whole, and every one, of those things that are of faith: just as animals, which are born into their order, are born into the affections natural to them; and, then, all things that belong to their life are therein. When, however, [the hereditary state] is contrary to order, then it is otherwise.


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