12. If any one thinks within himself, or says to another, "Who can have that internal acknowledgment of truth which is faith? I cannot," I will tell him how he may have it: Shun evils as sins, and approach the Lord, and you will have as much as you desire.
That he who shuns evils as sins is in the Lord, may be seen in THE DOCTRINE OF LIFE FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM Nos. 18-31; that he loves truth and sees it Nos. 32-41 ibid.; and that he has faith Nos. 42-52 ibid.
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