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DECLARATION OF DR. G. A. BEYER. 189
words which are to be thought and spoken, and not in
any good that is to be done, as was shewn before, and so
makes that a saving principle which is not such ; and,
moreover, removes the understanding from things which
ought to be believed. And what have such persons to
do with the light in which the spiritual sense of the
Word is ? Would it not be turned by them into dark
ness ? When the natural sense is turned into darkness,
what would the spiritual sense be ? Is there any one of
those who have confirmed themselves in faith separated
from charity, and in justification by it alone, that desires
to know what the good of life is ; or what love to the
Lord is, and towards their neighbour ; or what charity
is ; what the goods of charity ; what good works are,
and what it is to do ; yea, what faith is in its essence,
or any genuine truth that constitutes it ? They write
volumes, and confirm nothing but what they call faith ;
and all the things above recited, they say are contained
in that faith. From which it is evident, that if the spi
ritual sense of the Word had been revealed before, the
case would have been according to what the Lord says in
Matthew, Ifthine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be
full of darkness ; if
, therefore, the light that is in thee
be darkness, how great is that darkness.’ ( vi. 23. ) By
the eye, in the spiritual sense of the Word, is meant the
understanding. Hence, then, it is evident, thatthe spiritual
sense of the Word was to be revealed for a new church,
which will acknowledge and worship the Lord only, and
hold His Word sacred, and love divine truths, and reject
faith separated from charity. But more may be seen re
lative to this sense of the Word, in The Doctrine of the
New Jerusalem concerning the Sacred Scripture, 6—26;
as, what the spiritual sense of the Word is, 5-26 : that
there is a spiritual sense in all and every particular of the
Word, 9-17 : that it is by virtue of the spiritual sense
that the Word is of divine inspiration, and holy in every
single expression, 18, 19 : that the spiritual sense of the
Word has been heretofore unknown, and why it was not
revealed before, 20-25 : that from henceforth the spi
ritual sense of the Word will be opened to none but those
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