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administer to the intellectual part but not so much to the voluntary.

From these and other like considerations it is evident that uses are the things according to which happiness is given in heaven by the Lord; and that uses are the things by which the Lord is principally worshipped. Hence it is that John lay on the Lord's breast at table, and that the Lord loved him above the rest; but this not for his own sake, but because he represented the exercises of charity, that is uses. (A. C. 7038.)

All the statutes which were commanded the sons of Israel, were such as flowed from the order of heaven: hence they represented those things which belong to heaven. By worship according to the order of heaven is meant all the good works done according to the precepts of the Lord. By the worship of God at this day is meant principally the worship of the mouth in a temple, both morning and evening. But the worship of God does not consist essentially in this, but in a life of uses. This worship is according to the order of heaven. The worship of the mouth is also worship, but it is of no avail whatever unless there be worship of the life; for this latter worship is of the heart; and the former, that it may become worship, must proceed from this latter. (A. C. 7884.)


PIETY AND CHARITY.

Many believe that spiritual life or the life which leads to heaven, consists in piety, in external sanctity

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