7. It was granted me to ask some of the English clergy who professed and preached faith alone, which was done in the spiritual world whether: when they were reading in their churches this Exhortation in which faith is not mentioned, they believed this to be so, namely, that if any do evil and do not repent, the devil will enter into them, as he entered into Judas, and destroy both body and soul? They replied that in the state in which they were when reading the Exhortation they knew and thought no other than that these things were religion itself. When, however, they were composing and rendering attractive their sermons or discourses they did not think so, because they thought of faith as being the only means of salvation, and of the good of life as being a moral accessory to it in promoting the public good. But still they agreed that they had a general perception that he who lives well is saved, and that he who lives wickedly is condemned; and that they had this perception when not dominated by their proprium.* * The Latin word proprium means "what is one's own". Swedenborg uses it in a special sense involving "what is of the self".