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		<title>&#8220;Such as hatreds, revenges, cunnings, deceits, as a serpent breathes in poisons.&#8221; [A sermon on AE 1148]</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Coming to a natural innocence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inward causes of speaking ill of others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord's coming to a man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manifesting the quality of the imaginary heaven with a man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural innocence and spiritual innocence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Natural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Receiving the goods of the natural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sincerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The internal cause of cunning and deceit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The internal cause of hatred and revenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Without overcoming natural evils we never come to combat interior evils]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Hatreds, revenges, cunnings, deceits, describe the internal and external evils in relation to the will and the understanding. Hatred, is of the will, and revenges are the acts which proceed from the will. Cunning is of the understanding and deceits, are the acts which come forth from this cunning. To view these evils we must [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Thou shalt not steal&#8221; by Rev. Theodore Pitcairn</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doctrine null and void when consulting one’s rational]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moral and civil things of one’s occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural uses as foundation for spiritual uses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spending spiritual wealth on vulgar display]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squandering spiritual wealth in fantastic spiritual pleasures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stealing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stealing of goods and truths, with a man and with a woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stealing the things from the Word and the Doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When a man deprives others of innocence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When the natural use becomes a dead body, and the spiritual use a ghost]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Thou Shalt Not Steal&#8221; We read: &#8220;Amen, amen, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers. The thief cometh [&#8230;]</p>
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