Charity (Whitehead) n. 173

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173. VIII. THE SIGNS OF CHARITY ARE ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO WORSHIP. All things of charity have regard to looking to the Lord and shunning evils as sins, and doing the goods of use that pertain to one's calling. But all things of worship are externals, of the body and of the mind. The externals of the body are performed by acts and by words; and the externals of the mind are those that are performed by the will and the thought, which cohere with the externals of the body.


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