Divine Providence #146
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- When a person who previously found delight in fraud, for example, but who sees and inwardly acknowledges it as a sin, and resolves on this account to desist from it, when he does stop practicing fraud, there then ensues a battle… (paraphrased)
From point #5 of this chapter’s outline: “It is not contrary to rationality and freedom to compel oneself”
From Chapter 6, “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Not Be Compelled By External Means to Think and Will, Thus to Believe and Love, Matters Having to Do with Religion; but That a Person Bring Himself to Do So and at Times Compel Himself”
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Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.
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