Divine Providence #121
Topics covered:
- Simply believing what the church teaches purifies them (they think)
- Others believe that doing good is what purifies them of evils
- Others think it’s piety that purifies
- Others, that it’s universal confession of sins
- None of these purifies a person of evils unless…
- Yes, you should condemn yourself on account of specific sins
- All of this he must do as though of himself
- Hypocrites are like apes in human clothing
- How to have camaraderie with angels
From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”
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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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