The Church, specifically exists where the Word is found, and where through it the Lord is known, and consequently where, Divine Truths have been revealed, nos. 3857, 10761. Still those who are, born where the Word exists, and where the Lord is known, are not on that account of the Church; but those are who through truths from the Word, are being regenerated by the Lord, and these are they who lead a life of charity, nos. 6637, 10143, 10153, 10578, 10645, 10829. Those who are of the Church, that is, in whom the Church exists, are in the affection of truth for the sake of truth; that is, they love the truth because it is true, and from the Word they examine whether the doctrinals of the Church in which they were born, are true, nos. 5432, 6047. Otherwise every one would have truth from another, and from his native soil, no. 6047. The Lord's Church is with all in the whole world who live in good according to their religious system, nos. 3263, 6637, 10765. All who live in good - wherever they are - and acknowledge one God, are accepted by the Lord and come into heaven; for all who are in good acknowledge the Lord, because good is from the Lord, and the Lord is in good, nos. 2589-2604, 2861, 2863, 3263, 4190, 4197, 6700, 9256. The whole Church on earth, before the Lord, is as one man, nos. 7396, 9276; in like manner heaven, because the Church is heaven, that is, the Lord's kingdom on earth, nos. 2853, 2996, 2998, 3624-3629, 3636-3643, 3741-3745, 4625. But the Church, where the Lord is known and where the Word exists, is like the heart and lungs in a man in respect to the rest of the body, which lives therefrom, as from the fountains of its life, nos. 637, 931, 2054, 2853. Hence it is, that unless there were a Church where the Word exists, and where by means of it the Lord is known, the human race would not be saved, nos. 468, 637, 931, 4545, 10452. The Church is the foundation of heaven, no. 4060. The Church is internal and external, nos. 1242, 6587, 9375, 9680, 10762. The Internal of the Church is love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour; wherefore, those who are in the affection of good and truth from love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, constitute the internal church; and those who are in external worship from obedience and faith, constitute the external Church, nos. 1083, 1098, 4288, 6380, 6587, 7840, 8762. Knowing truth and good, and acting therefrom, constitute the External of the Church; but willing and loving truth and good, and acting therefrom, constitute the Internal of the Church, nos. 4899, 6775. The Internal of the Church is contained in the worship of those who belong to the external Church, although obscurely, no. 6775. The internal and external Church constitute one Church, nos. 409, 10762. Man has an Internal and an External, an Internal according to the image of heaven, and an External according to the image of the world; and therefore, in order that a man may be a Church, his External must act together with his Internal, nos. 3628, 4523, 4524, 6057, 6314, 97106, 10472. The Church is in a man's Internal and at the same time in his External, but not in the External apart from the Internal, nos. 1795, 6580, 10691. The Internal of the Church is according to truths and their quality, and according to the implantation of them in good by means of life, no. 1238. The Church, like heaven, is in man, and therefore the Church consists in general of the men in whom the Church is, no. 3884. In order that the Church may exist, there must be the doctrine of life, which is the doctrine of charity, nos. 3445, 10763, 10764. Charity constitutes the Church, and not faith separated from charity, no. 916: consequently, not the doctrine of faith which is separated from charity, but the doctrine of faith which is conjoined therewith, and according to which the life is, nos. 809, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 4468, 4672, 4683, 4766, 5826, 6637. The Church does not exist with a man, unless the truths of doctrine are implanted with him in the good of charity, and thus in the good of life, nos. 3310, 3963, 5826. There is no Church with a man, if he is only in the truths, which are called truths of faith, no. 5826. How much good there would be in the Church, if charity were in the first place, and faith in the second, no. 6269. And how much evil is in it, if faith is in the first place, no. 6272. In the Ancient Churches charity was the chief and essential [constituent] of the Church, no. 4680. The Church would be like heaven, if all had charity, nos. 2385, 2853. If good were the characteristic of the Church, and not truth apart from good, thus if charity were its characteristic, and not faith separate, the Church would be a one, and differences with respect to the doctrinals of faith and the forms of external worship, would be accounted as nothing, nos. 1285, 1316, 2982, 3267, 3445, 3451. Every Church begins from charity, but in the course of time declines from it, nos. 494,501, 1327, 3773, 4689; and thus turns to falsities from evil, and at length to evils, nos. 1834, 1835, 2910, 4683, 4689. The Church at its beginning and in its decline compared with the infancy and old age of a man, no. 10134. And also with the rising and setting of the sun, no. 1837. The successive states of the Christian Church, down to its last state; where the things are explained which the Lord foretold Concerning the consummation of the age and His coming, in Matthew (xxiv. from beginning to end), nos. 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3757, 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4229-4231, 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4635-4638, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071. The Christian Church at the present time is at its end, since there is in it no faith, because no charity, nos. 3489, 4689. The Last Judgment is the last time of the church, nos. 2118, 2252, 4057, 4333, 4535. Concerning the vastation of the Church, nos. 407-411. The consummation of the age and the coming of the Lord constitute the last time of the old Church and the beginning of the new, nos. 2243, 4535, 10622. When the old Church is being vastated, the interior truths are revealed which are to be of use to the new Church which is then established, nos. 3398, 3786. Concerning the establishment of the Church with the Gentiles, nos. 1366, 2986, 4747, 9256.