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 churches where this doctrine is received. . . believe no otherwise than that 'faith alone' is to think about God and salvation, and how they ought to live;" and that "there are very few who thus live from doctrine"—that is, in accordance with the doctrine of faith alone as set down in the creeds.

Then in that chapter of the Apocalypse (xxi) which contains the fullest account of the Holy City, New Jerusalem, recording its descent from God out of heaven, and describing its form and dimensions, the nature of its foundations, walls, gates, temple, etc., we are told in the last verse who are excluded from its sacred enclosure, and who are admitted or acknowledged as entitled to the rights and privileges of citizenship. The former are all who have, by disorderly and wicked lives, "adulterated the goods and falsified the truths of the Word," and thus rendered their souls impure and filthy, and unfit for the companionship of angels. The latter are "they who are written in the Lamb's book of life;" which words, as explained by Swedenborg, mean "they who believe in the Lord and live according to His commandments in the Word." And every one can see that among these there exists an endless diversity; for there are innumerable states or degrees of acknowledgment of the Lord and fidelity to the laws of life that He has revealed. And it is