Charity (Whitehead) n. 199

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199. APPENDIX. [The following appear in the author's MS. to be a second and subsequent draft of the first two sections of the work, and of the title of the third, the title and order of treatment of the fourth, and of the syllabus of the whole work. They are not only important and interesting in themselves, but also as presenting somewhat different phases of doctrinal truth on the subject.] I. THE FIRST OF CHARITY TO LOOK TO THE LORD AND SHUN EVILS AS SINS. It is known that charity, or love towards the neighbor, consists in doing good to others. But it shall be shown in the following pages how one is to do good, and to whom, that charity may be charity. Every man knows that no one can do good which in itself is good except from Him who is good itself, or good in Himself; that is, except from God. And everyone may also know that so long as a man is in evil, and by evil is with the devil, he can do no other than impure good, which outwardly appears as good, but inwardly is evil, which good is either Pharisaical, or for the sake of merit. It is therefore necessary in the first place to set forth what a man must he, in order that the good which proceeds from him may in itself be good, and thus the good of charity.


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