The GOOD of FAITH Becoming The GOOD of CHARITY

Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
WHAT THE GOOD OF FAITH IS, AND WHAT THE TRUTH OF FAITH

Everything of the church is called the "good of faith," that has to do with life and use from what the doctrine of faith of the church teaches; in a word everything that has to do with willing it and doing it from obedience; for the truths of faith of the church become goods by willing and doing them.

But everything is called the "truth of faith," which as yet has not any use as its end, or which as yet is not for the sake of life, consequently which is merely known and kept in the memory, and from this is laid hold of by the understanding, and is taught from it. For so long as the truths of the church go no further, they are merely knowledges, and relatively to goods are outside the man himself — for man's memory and understanding are like entries, and his will is like an inner chamber, because the will is the man himself.

This shows what the truth of faith is, and what the good of faith.

But the good which a man does in his first state during his regeneration is called the "good of faith," whereas the good which he does in the second state, namely, after he has been regenerated, is called the "good of charity." And therefore when a man does good from the good of faith, he does good from obedience; but when he does good from the good of charity, he does good from affection.

(from Arcana Coelestia 9230:2)