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INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS,
EXHIBITING
THE CLAIMS OF THE WRITINGS OF SWEDENBORG
TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC.
RESPECTING the celebrated Emanuel Swedenborg, the
subject of the following " Documents, &c., " great mis
representations have gone abroad, and have produced, in
the minds of many, most false and injurious impressions,
in regard both to him and to his writings. Let, however,
any one take, as a sample of his writings, those in which
he delivers the doctrines of the New Church, predicted in
the Revelation, as he affirms, under the symbol of the
New Jerusalem ; particularly, let the sample be his work
entitled, " On the New Jerusalem and its Heavenly
Doctrine;" or his " Doctrines of the New Jerusalem
respecting the Lord, the Sacred Scripture, Faith, and
Life;" let any one take either of these works as a sample :
and if he had previously only heard the venerable and
enlightened author spoken of as the deluded visionary
and bewildered enthusiast, he will be not a little surprised
on its perusal. Instead of visionary statements and en
thusiastic flights, he will find the words of truth and
soberness, under their most legitimate stamp : doctrines
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