Tuesday, November 27, 2007

AC 4766 - And I, whither do I come? (Genesis 37:30) or Where now is the church?

AC 4766
And I, whither do I come?
That this signifies Where now is the church?

[2] If this Divine truth, that the Lord's Human is Divine, is not received, it necessarily follows that a trine should be adored, and not one; and also that half of the Lord, namely, His Divine, should be adored, but not His Human; for who adores what is not Divine?

... Let every one consider in himself when he says that he acknowledges and believes in one God, whether he does not think of three; and when he says that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and these also are distinct in persons, and distinct as to functions, whether he can think that there is one God, except in the way that three distinct from one another make one by harmony, and also by condescension in so far as one proceeds from another. When therefore three gods are adored, where is the church?

[4] If also this Divine truth is not received both in doctrine and in live - that love toward the neighbor, or charity, and thence the works of charity, are an essential of the church, it necessarily follows that it is of the church to think what is true, but not to think what is good....

When faith separate establishes this, and also confirms it in life, no matter how it may speak of the fruits of faith, where then is the church?

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