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xiv. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.
writings themselves ; which not only exhibit throughout
the purest sentiments, but breathe in every line the
writer’s own entire conviction of the truth of what he
says. In the assertion, then, which we are noticing, he
only advanced what he most entirely believed. He who
thus makes such an assertion, must either be completely
deluded, or the assertion must be true. But it will be
impossible for any one who reads with attention either
of the works, for example, which we have mentioned, to
imagine that its writer was the victim of delusion. Not
only are the views of truth which they exhibit so elevated
and clear in themselves, as to recommend their own ex
cellence to every lover of truth for its own sake, inde
pendently of all reasoning ; but, as intimated before, the
method in which they are arranged, the Scripture proofs
by which they are supported, and the rational arguments
by which they are illustrated, are all of so superior an
order, as to evince in the writer the highest perfection of
the rational faculties, and to render ridiculous in regard
to him the imputation of self-delusion. There remains
no other alternative, but that his assertion is true,—that
the doctrines delivered in them as those of the New
Jerusalem, are really the doctrines of the New Jerusalem
of prophecy,-rays of that glorious light, which, as is
generally believed, was eventually to shine in the renewed
Christian Church.
All the other works of this illustrious author will be
found equally rational, when considered apart from pre
judice, and as the compositions of a man who had been
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