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ing to regeneration, but the truth of faith and the good of love do. For water only washes away the filth of the body, and in nowise the evils of the heart.

He who does not know that water signifies the truth of faith, cannot know what baptism means; for he believes that that external [rite] saves man, when yet what is external is of no effect, but the internal thing thereby signified, which is regeneration by the truths of faith. For they who are of the church, are distinguished from all other people in the world by baptism; for they can be regenerated by the truths of faith, but not they who are out of the church; for within the church is the Word in which are the truths of faith. (A. C. 10,238.)

These two sacraments, Baptism and the Holy Supper, are like two gates to eternal life. By baptism which is the first gate, every Christian is intromitted and introduced into what the church teaches from the Word respecting the other life, all of which teaching forms the means whereby man may be prepared for and led to heaven. The second gate is the holy supper; by this every man who suffers himself to be prepared and led by the Lord is intromitted and introduced into heaven. There are no other universal gates.


IDEAS ABOUT THE HOLY SUPPER.

There is nothing more known from the natural sense in the institution of the Holy Supper, than that the

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