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 learned from the Word and from the doctrine of the church, and had called the truths of their faith, are taken away from them, and they are imbued, instead, with every false persuasion which is in agreement with the evil of their life; for all are let into their own loves, and into the falsities which agree with them; and then they hate and turn from and thus reject truths, because they are repugnant to the falsities of evil in which they are.

This I can testify from all my experience concerning the things of heaven and hell, that all who have acknowledged the doctrine of salvation by faith alone and have led evil lives, are in hell. I have seen many thousands of them cast down thither; concerning whom see in the treatise on the Last Judgment and the destruction of Babylon.

That it is love in act, thus that it is the life of man, which remains, follows as a conclusion from the experimental evidence that has now been adduced, and from what has been said above concerning deeds and works. Love in act is work and deed.

It is to be observed that all works and deeds belong to moral and civil life, and therefore regard sincerity and uprightness, justice and equity. Sincerity and uprightness belong to moral life; justice and equity, to civil life. The love from which they are practised, is either heavenly or infernal. The works and deeds of moral and civil life are heavenly, if they are done from heavenly love; for whatever