Charity 208 - the 'first of charity'

Charity 208
...the "first" of charity is to look to the Lord and shun evils as sins, which is done by repentance.
...before the Lord can inflow with good, evil must be removed; for influx before that is dangerous, as the good is turned into evil and increases it. The first thing, therefore, is to remove evil, and afterwards to inflow with good, and bring it into operation by means of the man Anyone attempting to do good from the Lord, before evil has been removed by repentance, or without shunning evils as sins, is attempting what is impossible....
Who is loving a person, when he wants to kill him, or hates him? Who is loving the neighbor, when he commits whoredom with someone else's wife? Who is loving the neighbor, when he defrauds him? Who is loving the neighbor, when he slanders him? Who is loving the neighbor, when he covets what belongs to him? Those evils, therefore, must first be removed; and in the measure that they are being removed, the that extent the neighbor is being loved.