Doctrine of Faith #9

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9. A blind faith continued also afterward among many of the Protestant Reformed, because they divorced faith from charity, and people who divorce these cannot help but be ignorant of the truth. They also cannot help but call faith whatever they think to be so, apart from any internal acknowledgment of its being so.

In their case ignorance is a protection for their dogmas. For as long as ignorance reigns, together with the belief that theological matters transcend comprehension, they can speak without being contradicted, and have the people believe that their dogmas are true and that they themselves understand them.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.