Wednesday, July 02, 2014

HH 291, 302 - all good is from the Lord and all evil is from hell

HH 291
It is well known in the church that all good is from God,
and that nothing of good is from man,
consequently that no one ought to ascribe (attribute)
any good to himself as his own.

HH 302
If a person only believed, as is really true,
that all good is from the Lord and all evil from hell,
he would neither make the good in him a matter of merit
nor would evil be imputed to him;
for he would then look to the Lord
in all the good he thinks and does,
and all the evil that flows in
would be cast down to hell from which it comes.
But because person does not believe
that anything flows into him either from heaven or from hell,
and therefore supposes that all things
that he thinks and wills are in himself
and therefore from himself,
he appropriates the evil to himself,
and the good that flows in he defiles with merit.

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