48. It was stated that these truths appear to pertain to faith only; but the thought of the understanding derives its existence (existere) from the love of the will, and this love is the being (esse) of the thought in the understanding, as was said above in No. 43. For whatever any one wills from love, that he wills to do, wills to think, wills to understand and wills to speak; or what is the same thing, what any one loves from the will, this he loves to do, loves to think, loves to understand and loves to speak. Moreover, when a man shuns evil as sin, he is then in the Lord, as was shown above, and the Lord works all things. Therefore, to those who asked Him what they should do that they might work the works of God, the Lord said:
This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent. John vi 28, [29].
To believe on the Lord is not only to think that He is, but also to do His words, as He teaches elsewhere.
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