AC 7857 - don't go back

AC 7857
When a person is being regenerated,
the good with him proceeds from the truth of faith;
for he then acts in accordance with truth;
not from the affection of truth,
but from obedience,
because it has been so commanded.
Afterward however, when he has been regenerated,
he does what is good from affection, thus from love.
These two states with people are precisely distinguished in the Word,
for the reason that a person cannot be in both states at the same time.
He who is in the first state cannot enter into the other
until he has been regenerated;
and he who is in the second state
must not betake himself to the former.
If any one so betakes himself,
he loses the affection of doing what is good from love,
and relapses into the state of faith, which had been of service to him...
and he also relapses beyond this state.