17. With those who are in faith alone all good works become meritorious, even repentance.
They falsify the whole Word who confirm falsities within themselves, and they do not know this. Luther.
That all things are from God may be illustrated by all the correspondences with man; from the spheres around the angels.
Charity and faith make one like affection and thought, so that there is not given anything of one more than of the other.
Faith is described such as it is with the ancients, it is vivified by charity, the faith which is historical, in other respects denotes knowledge.
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