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alone. By making war, is signified to oppose and assault these two essentials of the church. By overcoming and killing them, is signified to reject and extirpate them in themselves; and, as far as lies in their power, to cause others to do the same.

The reason why they who are principled in the internals of the doctrine of faith alone will impugn and reject these two essentials, is, that they have confirmed themselves in two things diametrically opposed to them; first, that it is not the Lord, but God the Father, who is to be approached; and secondly, that a life according to the precepts of the decalogue is not a spiritual life, but only a moral and civil life; and this they confirm, that no one may believe that he can be saved by works, but by their faith alone.

All they who have had these tenets strongly impressed upon their minds in schools and universities, do not readily recede from them afterwards; and for three several reasons, which have not been made known till now.

First, because they have entered, as to their spirit, into association with their like in the spiritual world, where there arc many satans who are delighted with nothing but falsities, from whom they can no how be separated but by rejecting those falsities; nor can this be done but by immediately approaching God the Saviour, and beginning a Christian life according to the precepts of the decalogue.

The second reason is, that they believe that remission