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HIS LETTERS TO DR. G. A. BEYER. 167
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faith alone, which at present constitutes the theology of
the reformed churches, is built on an entirely false
foundation. I remain, &c.,
"EMANUEL SWEDENBORG .
Amsterdam, April 15 , 1766.”
LETTER III.
To Dr. Beyer.
"I arrived here on the 8th of this month. The voyage
from England hither was made in eight days. The wind
was favourable, but attended with a violent storm, which
occasioned so short a passage. I have since received
yours of the 17th September, and am glad to find your
self and my other friends are well at Gottenburg, to all
of whom you will please to present my compliments.
" I wish much blessing to the intended publication of
the Library of Sermons, and send you herewith my
subscription for the same. I presume you will use all
necessary precaution in this work, because the time is not
yet arrived, that the essentials of the New Church can
be so received; the clergy, who have so much confirmed
themselves in their tenets at the universities, find it
difficult to be convinced : for all confirmations, in things
pertaining to theology, are, as it were, glued fast in the
brains, and can with difficulty be removed ; and, whilst
they remain, genuine truths can find no place. Besides,
the new heaven of Christians, from whence the New
Jerusalem from the Lord will descend, ( Rev. xxi. 12. )
is not yet perfectly settled.
" It is now generally thought here at Stockholm, that
faith and charity must advance together, and that the one
cannot exist without the other, by reason that good works
are the fruits offaith, and shew themselves in a state of
justification (yet very few of the Lutherans think beyond
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this) ; although the learned have not yet discovered any
The title of a work written by Dr. Beyer.
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