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 Lord's Church on earth, are included "all who are in the good of life, according to the doctrinal tenets of their religion," which "they believe to be truths and goods," although they are not such; also, "all who are in falsities from ignorance and from various religions," but who nevertheless "live well according to their religious dogmas." From which we learn that people may be in falsities from ignorance or from wrong instruction, and yet be "in the good of life," as is the case with multitudes in the various Christian denominations at the present day. And we are further taught that this class of persons are "in the Lord's New Church." and are "numerous"—far more numerous than those who constitute the internal of this Church; but precisely who they are is something that is not given us to know, since their character or inward quality is perceived and known "to no one but the Lord alone." From which it appears plain that the New Church of which Swedenborg writes, is not a visible body of people in the sense in which visibility is commonly understood.

What we have here said and shown ought, we think, to be sufficient to prove that it is a mistake which some make, who hold that none are of the New Church but those whose minds are open to the third or highest degree. But it may