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xvi. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.
That work, however, does not supersede the use of No. 2:
for the doctrines delivered in No. 2, with the exception of
that on the Sacred Scripture, are treated there in quite a
different manner from that in which they are presented in
the "True Christian Religion," though with the utmost
harmony in the results. As introductions, then, the three
first-named works are all of great value : but whoever
wishes to see all the subjects which properly belong to a
body of Christian doctrine, treated at a length suited to
their importance, established on copious Scripture tes
timony, and brought down to the apprehension by the
clearest illustrations from reason and science, should study
the "True Christian Religion." Doctrinal points, also,
are necessarily occasionally discussed, and sometimes
largely, in all his other publications.
The next and most extensive class of our author’s
works, is formed by those which are devoted to the
exposition of the Scriptures, according to the principles
explained in the "Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture.”
Of these there are three : the " Arcana Cœlestia," which
is an exposition of the books of Genesis and Exodus ;
and two works ( one of them a posthumous publication, )
on the " Apocalypse." In these works the spiritual sense
of the books mentioned, and, incidentally, of far the
greater part of the whole Word of God, is most lumi
nously delivered and copiously illustrated ; the author’s
doctrine of the existence of a Correspondence or regular
Analogy between spiritual things and natural, which is
such that the one answers to the other constantly and
immutably, is demonstrated by such an abundance of
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