DL 6 - In the Lord's View

DL 6

In the Lord's view,
the whole human race is as one man;
all in a kingdom are also as one man;
likewise, all in a province, all in a city, and all in a house.
It is not the men themselves that are thus seen together,
but the uses with them.
They that are good uses,
that is, that perform uses from the Lord,
when viewed together,
are seen as a man perfect in form and beautiful;
these are such as perform uses for the sake of the uses;
that is, that love uses because they are uses
of the house, of the city, province,
kingdom, or of the whole world.
But they that perform uses,
not for the sake of uses,
but for the sake of themselves alone, or the world alone,
likewise appear before the Lord as one man,
but as an imperfect and deformed man.