hes well but lives
wickedly, and in the idea that one who does not acknowledge God cannot be
saved. This makes plain what kind of religion it is only to think about
the Lord from faith, so called, and not to do something from charity.
Therefore the Lord says,

Why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? Everyone who
comes to Me and hears my words and does them .. . is like a house-builder
who has placed the foundation on a rock, but the man who hears and does
not do, is like a man building a house on the ground without a foundation
(Lu 6:46-49).

92. (vi) _The conjunction of the Lord with man and man's reciprocal
conjunction with the Lord is effected by these two faculties._
Conjunction with the Lord and regeneration are one and the same thing,
for a man is regenerated in the measure that he is conjoined with the
Lord. All that we have said above about regeneration can be said
therefore of the conjunction, and all we said about conjunction can be
said about regeneration. The Lord Himself teaches in John that there is a
conjunction of the Lord with man and a reciprocal conjunction of man with
the Lord.

Abide in Me, and I in you. . . . He that abides in Me and I in him,
brings forth much fruit (15:4, 5).

In that day you will know that you are in Me and I in you (14:20).

[2] From reason alone anyone can see that there is no conjunction of
minds unless it is reciprocal, and that what is reciprocal conjoins. If
one loves another without being loved in return, then as he approaches,
the other withdraws; but if he is loved in return, as he approaches, the
other does also, and there is conjunction. Love also wills to be loved;
this is implanted in it; and so far as it is loved in return it is in
itself and in its delight. Thence it is plain that if the Lord loves man
and is not in turn loved by man, the Lord advances but man withdraws;
thus the Lord would be constantly willing to meet with man and enter him,
but man would be turning back and departing. So it is with those in hell,
but with those in heaven there is mutual conjunction.

[3] Since the Lord wills conjunction with man for salvation's sake, He
also provides something reciprocal with man. This consists in the fact
that the good a man wills and does in freedom and the truth he thinks and
speaks from the will according to reason seem to be from himself, and
that the good in his will and the truth in his understanding seem to be
his--indeed they se