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X. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.
deduced in the clearest manner from the literal sense of
the Word ofGod, arranged, as to their various particulars,
in the most lucid order, and supported by the strongest
rational considerations. Let either of these works be
perused with candour, and with the attention and devout
seriousness which the subjects treated of demand, and
which the mode of treatment merits ; and it is thought
the reader must be disposed to admit, both that the
doctrines which it delivers are truly the doctrines of the
Word of God, and that the illumination by which they
are so convincingly deduced from that source must have
proceeded from its Divine Author. Let it then be
seriously considered, whether a writer who was thus, on
the most vital points of Christian doctrine, the organ of
the dictates of truth, could, on other parts of the same
general system, be the victim of the illusions of error.
There are various considerations, which, if duly reflected
on, would establish the claims of this writer to the atten
tion of the Christian world. It is generally admitted
among Christians, that the prophecies of Scripture do
lead to the expectation of a glorious state of the church
on earth,—a state in which she shall be glorious for the
clearness of her doctrinal views, and for the purity of her
practice, beyond anything which has hitherto been wit
nessed. Many commentators have seen, that such a state
of the church is what is prefigured by the description of
the New Jerusalem, in the Revelation, which is said to
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come down from God out of heaven,” (xxi. 2, 10. ) and
to be "the tabernacle of God with men." (3.) This is
the view of the meaning of that prophecy taken by Swe
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