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OF things. So the soul knows th at in witch :,
u accused or excused, and arrives at tie l1now1
eage ot good and evil. We learn of relation
snip to God and goodness, and apnrchcna ~,
| o"n spirit OF mind and tendency of life. RI
Aect'on cahs back what We have been and dono
*'1u VIC learn what we are The mirror of co1.
'ee1lse thought Holds in review the n,,rnose
Spif1t' activities, and Judgment of life, and the
SOUL Knows cumulatively, from series. and
spi!nss OF acts its spiritual state Thought.
t.uell' tne Law, are means by which It arrives at
tnis knowledge Activities of the mind and
op1slt nave no quality OF good or evil cxccpt in
lelaeloa 70 law. The wholly ignorant can
no1 SIN. had not known sin but
W tnc law, for I had not known lust,
e4cepL Inc law had said, Thou shalt not
covet.' Contrariety and discrimination are re-
| qu'feu' tnat there may be sin. "For where
tuerc 10 no !a}F there is no transgrcssion.' The
lnLefdlct OF coVetousness, marking the path of
INVERSION, was needed to develop lust into sin
and death. "Once I was alive (kucw M sin7
without the law, but when the commandment @
cane, sin tcovetousness, which excludes and in
vaues all common good] revived and died.
And the commandment which was ordained to
Nie 1onnd to be unto deathn
Law furnished the condition of intelliernce
necessary to sin, but covetousness, msusiny the
commandment, wrought all manner OF con-
cupiscencc, for without the law u enabling r.,
nstlnsush S: good and evil, sin WAS acath''
sin, then, develops through law, "wor,1jno
death" alienation, and condemnation, .tby thu
which rs good.'' As intelligence graduates
guilt, "sin by the colnna1,klment becomes cx-
eeea1nsly sinful" and transfuscs its most yiru-
tene strainsI where it eoexsts With the best ir-
TINS Is TO De nnder the imposition as we'll Us
quit OF sln Deception Iorcruns IS it attends
transsress1on, aud instils the lie, q Tc shall
t'a+ ,I sufeiy ule anl where the persuasion gains
3oes & not follow in total separation from God.
oeatA has Won its victim. "Sin, taking oc-
cason oy tnc commandment, deceived inc,'
msinuatIns I1npunity, "and by it slew me-" 10
propagate or Intimate soul cau sin and not be
1@ost, @ Is to DC in arct-imposition among mankind
"Aefe the evil mas prevailed sit works al
manner OF concup1scence." It makes the law
egeu1 ah extreme dehand, difficult OF accom-
p.1shlllent, i restraint upon liberty, unfricndly,
Ut Gtnilty, and 50 provoking enmity.
How strangely pcryerse has a life become tn
nave Inc pure and perfect love Of God and love
oa,n;t -, 4aAinu , seem a,fhsut! The mind canrot
aonlM a. ia~ that which Is inferior, Or vicious,
o ine relation We recognize to righteousness re-
]ects any $ substitute, as changing the truth Of
God to 4 lte, F" and wc arc obliged to hold that
only to be good which fills the only measure Of
an1 Spiritual purity and trueness alone nrc life, |
and unite to God. The "carnal, sold under |
slu," are in antithesis ssdoing what they allow |
not, !" violating known good thus, ttconscntinr |
to the law that it is good" and adding igno
mnv to wickedness. For the acme Of guilt and |
deprarity Is III SHINING against Intelligence and |
law. !" For III the tles1 u or life That coyetons-
ness dictates !" there dwclleth no rood thinrn
to stop its course. "To will, is nrese51t
but how to perform good I find not;
The words *'to will +" express no cond;tiop
or activity Of goodness, for the soul cannot
choose, or act, without known resource nr
'' how to perform, " from q l1cart full Of pood-
ness. They express the Integrity of the Sense
Of righteousness and the Judgment of the sonl.
For it is an iuperislable attribute Of the Divine
likeness OF nliu1 to decide iustlv AGAINST ain
- For delight in the law Of God aftsr tI,c in.
ward man. The intelligent discerning, know
ing soul delights in, approves, and decides with
the law, as necessity Ut couscicntious apprc-
hension, but these decisions are not goodness,
For there is *another Law warning against the
aw Ut the minds Inward man or intellircnt
;oul} and bringing into captivity to tie law of
sin.''
Goodness, then, is distinct from the power or
vet Of discerning or approving, or the urgency
If conscienre TO good. 1t IS tho perfor1uing
disposition, or active truencss, m tie PLACE of
: the law Of sin," supporting '"thc law Of thu.
mind" It is only III what the soul dues it
1nows its state. Hereby do We know that