DLW 424 [3]
. . . there exists a love of ruling from a love of useful service,
not from a love of useful service for the sake of self,
but from a love of useful service
for the sake of the common good.
A person can hardly distinguish the one from the other,
yet the difference between them
is as that between heaven and hell.
DLW 425
. . . it is a person's love
that becomes spiritual and is regenerated,
and it cannot become spiritual or be regenerated
unless it knows through its intellect
what is evil and what is good,
and consequently what is true and what is false.
When it knows this
it can choose the one or the other;
and if it chooses good,
it can through its intellect
be informed of the means by which it can arrive at good.
The means by which a person can arrive at good
have all been provided.
To know and understand these means
is the function of rationality,
and to will and do them is the function of freedom.
It is freedom also
to will to know, understand and think about them.
[3] Still, it should rightly be known
that these two faculties of freedom and rationality
are not a person's own,
but are the Lord's in a person;
that they cannot be assigned to a person as his own,
nor given to a person as his own,
but are continually the Lord's in him;
and yet that a person never has them taken away.
The reason they are not taken away
is that a person cannot be saved without them,
for without them he cannot be regenerated . . ..
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