Selection from True Christian Religion ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity and Good Works (pt. 31)
v Doctrinal Series v
Charity and Good Works (pt. 31)
v Doctrinal Series v
X. THERE ARE DUTIES OF CHARITY, SOME PUBLIC, SOME DOMESTIC, AND SOME PRIVATE
The benefactions of charity and the duties of charity are distinct, like the things done from choice and the things done from compulsion.
But by the duties of charity official duties in a kingdom or state are not meant, as the duties of a minister to minister, of a judge to judge, and so on, but the duties of everyone whatever his employment may be. Thus these duties are from a different origin, and flow forth from a different will, and are therefore done from charity by those who have charity, and on the other hand from no charity by those who have no charity.
(True Christian Religion 429)