iracles. No internal is
possible with them which is not at the same time external. And yet a
forced internal is possible with persons in internal worship; it may be
forced by fear or compelled by love. That forced by fear is found in
those who worship for fear of the torment and fire of hell. This internal
is not the internal of thought of which we have treated, however, but an
external of thought called internal here because it partakes of thought.
The internal of thought of which we have treated cannot be forced by any
fear; it can be compelled by love and by fear of failing to love. In the
true sense fear of God is nothing else. To be compelled by love and by
the fear of failing in it is self-compulsion, and self-compulsion, it
will be seen in what follows, is not contrary to freedom and rationality.

137. It is plain then what forced worship and unforced worship are like.
Forced worship is corporeal, inanimate, obscure and sad--corporeal because
it is of the body and not of the mind; inanimate because it has no life
in it; obscure for lack of understanding in it; and sad because it does
not have the joy of heaven in it. But worship not forced and real is
spiritual, living, seeing and joyful--spiritual, because spirit from the
Lord is in it; living, because life from Him is in it; seeing because
wisdom from Him is in it; and joyful because heaven from Him is in it.

138. (iv) _No one is reformed in states of no liberty or rationality._ We
showed above that only what a man does in freedom according to reason is
made his. This is because freedom belongs to the will and reason to the
understanding; acting in freedom in accord with reason a man acts from
the will by the understanding and what is done in the union of the two is
appropriated. Now, since the Lord wills that a man be reformed and
regenerated in order that eternal life or the life of heaven may be his,
and none can be reformed or regenerated unless good is appropriated to
his will and truth to his understanding as if they were his, and only
that can be appropriated which is done in freedom of the will and in
accord with the reason of the understanding, no one is reformed in states
of no freedom or rationality. There are many such states, but they may be
summarized as states of fear, misfortune, mental illness, physical
disease, ignorance, and intellectual blindness. Something will be said of
each.

139. No one is reformed in a _state of fear_ because fear ta