38. So far as any one is principled in good, and from good loves truths, so far he loves the Lord, for the Lord is Good itself and Truth itself. The Lord is therefore with man in good and in truth; and if truth is loved from good then the Lord is loved, and not otherwise. This the Lord teaches in John:
He that hath my precepts, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me ... But he that loveth me not keepeth not my words, John xiv 21, 24;
and elsewhere:
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. John xv 10.
The precepts, words and commandments of the Lord are truths.
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