The case is
similar with adulteries, whether they be fornications, whoredoms,
concubinages, or adulteries; for those things are imputed to every one,
not according to the deeds themselves, but according to the state of the
mind in the deeds; for deeds follow the body into the tomb, whereas the
mind rises again.
531. VI. THUS CONJUGIAL LOVE IS IMPUTED TO EVERY ONE. There are
marriages in which conjugial love does not appear, and yet is: and there
are marriages in which conjugial love appears and yet is not: there are
several causes in both cases, which may be known in part from what was
related concerning love truly conjugial, n. 57-73; concerning the cause
of colds and separations, n. 234-260; and concerning the causes of
apparent love and friendship in marriages, n. 271-292: but external
appearances decide nothing concerning imputation; the only thing which
decides is the conjugial principle, which abides in every one's will,
and is guarded, in whatever state of marriage a man is. The conjugial
principle is like a scale, in which that love is weighed; for the
conjugial principle of one man with one wife is the storehouse of human
life, and the reservoir of the Christian religion, as was shewn above,
n.
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