particularly in the Decalogue, of no account, by acting dishonestly and
unjustly in business and in judgments for the sake of gain or influenced
by friendship; committing whoredom and adultery when lust inflames and
urges; burning with hate and revenge against those who do not favor
their gain or honor; lying, and speaking evil of the good, and good of
the evil, and so on. When a man is in these evils, and has not been
purified from them by turning away from them and hating them, and still
worships God devoutly, as has been said above, then he profanes; for he
mingles his internals which are impure with externals that are pious,
and these he defiles.

For there can be nothing external that does not proceed and have
existence from internals. The actions and speech of man are his
externals, and thoughts and volitions are his internals. Man can speak
only from thought, and can act only from volition. When the life of the
thoughts and of the will is infected with craft, cunning, and violence,
it must needs be that these, as interior evils of the life, will flow
into the speech and actions pertaining to worship and piety, and defile
them as filth defiles waters.

This worship is what is meant by "Gog and Magog" (Apoc. xx. 8), and is
thus described in Isaiah:

"What is the multitude of sacrifices unto Me, meat offerings, incense,
sabbaths, new moons, appointed feasts, and prayers, when your hands are
full of bloods? Wash you, make you clean, put away the wickedness of
your doings . . . ; cease to do evil" (i. 11-19).

This kind of profanation is not hypocritical like the former, because
the man who is in it believes that he will be saved by external worship