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THE REAL SOLIFIDIANS.
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REAL THOUGH NOT PROFESSED SOLIFIDIANS.

There are indeed in the church some who say that charity is the essential of the church, and not faith separate; but to say it and believe it, and not to live the life of charity, is only to say that it is, and not to make it the essential. Therefore these are in the same situation with those who say that faith is the essential; for with them charity is of faith alone, and not of the life; therefore neither can they be enlightened. (A. E. 107.)

Truths are not given without good, for they derive their life from good. The truths belonging to a man who is not principled in good, are indeed truths in themselves, but they are not truths in him. (A. E. 48.)

By the angel of the church of Ephesus are meant all those in the church who are in the knowledges of truth and good, that is, in the knowledge of such things as are of heaven and the church, and nevertheless are not, or not yet, in a life according to them. By these knowledges are principally understood doctrinals. But knowledges alone, or doctrinals alone, of good and truth, do not make a man spiritual, but a life according to them. For doctrinals or knowledges without a life according to them, reside only in the memory and thence in the thought; and all things which only reside there, reside in the natural man. Therefore a man does not become spiritual before these things enter into

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