104. The same would happen if anyone embraced the faith of the New Church and retained the faith of the old Church concerning the imputation of the Lord's righteousness and merit for from this, as from a root, have sprung all the dogmas of the former Church, like so many young shoots. If this were to happen, it would be comparatively as if one should extricate himself from three heads of the dragon and become entangled in its four remaining ones; or as if one should fly from a leopard and meet with a lion; or as if one should come out of a pit where there is no water and fall into a pit full of water and be drowned. That this is so will be seen after the exposition of the following article where something will be advanced concerning imputation.