AC 6299 - an example of the internal and external of the church

AC 6299 [2-3]
. . . the natural, which is external,
must needs be regenerated;
for unless it is regenerated,
the internal has neither foundation nor receptacle;
and if it has no foundation nor receptacle,
it utterly perishes.

As an illustration of this matter take this example:
The very affection of charity
which a person feels within himself
as a quietude and bliss
in benefiting the neighbor
without regard to any recompense,
is the internal of the church;
but to will this good
and to do it from truth,
that is, because it has been so commanded in the Word,
is the external of the church.
If the natural, which is the external,
is not in agreement,
that is, does not will nor do this good,
because it sees in it no recompense,
thus nothing of self  . . .
then the internal has no foundation,
nor corresponding receptacle,
except such as either rejects, or perverts,
or extinguishes the influx;
and therefore the internal perishes,
that is, is closed and stopped up,
so that nothing from heaven
can pass into the natural through the internal . . ..