Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 150

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150. MERIT.

THOSE who do goods with the view of obtaining merit, do not do them from the love of good, but from the love of reward; for he who is desirous of acquiring merit desires also to be rewarded; and those who do so, see their delight, and place it, in reward, and not in good; wherefore, they are not spiritual, but natural.


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