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whether they affirm the one or the other, although there are few who think of the latter; and if they do, provided it be in simplicity of heart, because they have been so instructed, and they still live in charity, it does them no injury.) Such persons, when they hear that the bread and wine in the holy supper, in the internal sense, signify the Lord's love towards the whole human race and the things appertaining to love, with the reciprocal love of man towards the Lord and his neighbor, instantly believe it and rejoice that it is so.

But the case is otherwise with those who are principled in mere doctrines and not in charity. These dispute on every subject, and condemn all without distinction, whose sentiments, or, as they term it, beliefs, do not accord with their own.

Hence it may be obvious to every one that love to the Lord and charity towards our neighbor constitute the internal of the church. (A. C. 1798.)


UNITY OF SPIRIT WITH DIVERSITY OF BELIEF.

Doctrines alone do not constitute the external much less the internal of the church; nor do they serve to distinguish churches before the Lord; but this is effected by a life according to doctrines, all of which if true, regard charity as their fundamental; for what is the end and design of doctrines but to teach how man should live?

The several churches in the Christian world are

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