Doc. of Life (Dick) n. 83

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83. By sincerity is also meant integrity, justice, fidelity, and uprightness. Man cannot be principled in these virtues of himself, so as to love them from them and for the sake of them. But he who shuns fraud, cunning and deceit as sins, is thus principled in these virtues not of himself but from the Lord, as was shown above Nos. 18-31. This is true in regard to every one in his office and occupation, as in regard to a priest, a magistrate, a judge, a merchant and a workman.


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