Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 85

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85. It is commonly supposed at the present day, that every man is a neighbour in a like degree, and that good ought to be done to every one who requires help. But Christian prudence is concerned in examining well the quality of a man's life, and in practising charity in accordance therewith. A man of the Internal Church acts therein with discrimination, and thus intelligently; but a man of the External Church, because he cannot so well distinguish things, acts without discrimination.


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