208. [210.] 70. I spoke with Melanchthon* about faith alone, saying that one can see from reason only that faith alone does not save, because every individual is the embodiment of his good or his evil, and every spirit is the form and image of his good or his evil, not only in respect to his facial appearance but also as regards his entire body. For a spirit is such as his affection is, in mind and at the same time in body, as one can plainly know from the fact that when anyone speaks contrary to some spirit's or angel's affection, the latter's facial appearance then immediately changes, even becoming invisible and disappearing. Now, because faith alone is merely a matter of thought and not of the will, and thus a matter solely of the memory and not of the life, it follows, I said, that it exists as yet outside the person and not within him. Consequently, since a spirit is a spirit wholly to the degree of his good or his evil, and since faith separated from good does not exist within a person, it follows that such a faith is only a kind of skin, and that adherents of faith alone are not human except in respect to the skin, so that they may be rightly termed cutaneous or skin-deep ones. * Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwarzert or Schwarzerd), 1497-1560, a German Protestant reformer, who collaborated with Martin Luther in drawing up the Augsburg Confession, a summation of the Lutheran faith, for whose formulation he was mainly responsible. Endorsed by the Lutheran princes, the statement was presented at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, and it became the chief creed of the Lutheran Church. [Marginal Note] Melanchthon