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with riches. That by wars in the Word are signified spiritual wars, which consist in impugning truth, and are conducted by reasonings from falsities, is evident from many passages. (See Rev. xiii. 7; xvi. 4; Jer. vi. 3, 4, 5; Is. xlii. 13; Matt. xxiv. 6, 7, 8.)


ONLY ONE DIVINE PERSON.

Something must here be said concerning conjunction with the Lord by a life according to the precepts of the decalogue.

There are two tables upon which these precepts are written, one for the Lord, the other for man. What the first table contains, is, that a plurality of gods are not to be worshipped, but only one; and the second, that evils are not to be committed. Therefore, when one God is worshipped, and man does not commit evils, a conjunction takes place; for in proportion as man desists from evils, that is, does the work of repentance, in the same proportion he is accepted of God, and does good from Him.

But who now is this one God? A trine or triune God is not one God, so long as this trine or triunity exists in three persons. But He in whom a trine or triunity exists in one person, is one God, and that God is the Lord. Enter into whatever intricacies of thought you please, yet will you never be able to extricate yourself and make out that God is one, unless he is also one in person. That this is the case, the

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