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HIS LETTERS TO DR. G. A. BEYER. 173
"I send herewith a little treatise, printed in London,
entitled, De Commercio Animæ et Corporis, which has
been sent to the societies and universities in England and
France. Please to peruse the latter part of it : most
likely it is also translated into English. I gave only to
bishop Belzelstierna that little treatise, entitled, A Brief
Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church, en
joining him at the same time, in the strictest manner, to
take care not to let it pass into other people’s hands,
because there are but very few in Sweden, whose un
understandings are receptive of true theology, and there
fore the light that is given from the Word of God, is not
received by them. As, for instance, what is said in Rom.
iii. 28, and in Gal. ii. 16, where an imputative faith of
the merits of Christ is not meant, but real faith in Jesus,
which is a faith from Him and in Him. Neither are the
works of the law of the Decalogue meant in those places,
but the works of the Mosaic law, proper to the Jews.
Neither is Rom. iv. to be understood of the imputation of
the present church, &c., nor will they be enlightened by
such Scripture texts as concern the Son of God ; that by
the Son of God, is not to be understood any Son of God
from eternity, but the Son of God conceived in time from
Jehovah God, and born of the Virgin Mary, according to
the very words themselves, in Luke i. 32-35 ; Matt. iii.
17, xvii. 5 ; John xx. 31 ; 1st Epistle of John v. 20, 21 ,
and other places. This is likewise agreeable to the Apos
tolic Creed, where no other Son of God is mentioned,
and consequently the primitive church knew of no other.
" That a Son of God from eternity was inserted in the
Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, arose from this, that they
found no other way to refute and banish the Arian errors.
(See the Apostolic Creed.) I therefore adhere to the
Apostolic Church.
"To call on God the Saviour, can in nowise be denied
throughout Christendom, and still less by the Lutherans
who abide by the Augustine confession, p. 19 ; and also
in the Apology, p. 226 ; and, moreover, that in Christ
Man is God, and God is Man ; as also many other par
ticulars already mentioned. The Formula Concordiæ
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