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VIII.

SALVATION IN WHATSOEVER HERESY.

THERE are evils and falsities to which goods and truths can be adjoined, as may appear from this consideration: that there are so many diverse dogmas and doctrinals, some of which are altogether heretical, and yet in every one of them salvation is attainable. (A. C. 3993.)

While man is regenerating he is let into combats against falsities, and then he is kept by the Lord in truth, but in that truth which he had persuaded himself to be truth; and from this truth combat is waged against the false.

Combat may be waged even from truth not genuine, provided it be such that it can by any means be conjoined with good; and it is conjoined with good by innocence, for innocence is the medium of conjunction. Hence it is that they within the church may be regenerated by means of any doctrine whatsoever; but especially they who are in genuine truths. (A. C. 6765.)

Within the church there are some of all denominations who are endowed with conscience; though their conscience is more perfect in proportion as the truths

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