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190 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
who are principled in genuine truths from the Lord, 26.
From these considerations, then, it may appear, that it is
of the Divine Providence of the Lord that the spiritual
sense has been concealed from the world until the
present age, and in the meantime was preserved in
heaven among the angels, who from it derive their wis
dom. This sense was known and also cultivated among
the ancients who lived before Moses ; but inasmuch as
their posterity converted the correspondences, of which
solely their Word, and, consequently, their religion con
sisted, into various idolatries, and the Egyptians into
magic, the knowledge of it, by the Divine Providence of
the Lord, was withdrawn,-first, among the children of
Israel, and afterwards, for the reasons mentioned above,
among Christians, and is now first opened for the Lord’s
New Church.’
II. In regard to the Doctrines of Religion contained
in our author’s works, and which are dispersed through
them all, but especially through those volumes which
constitute the second class of his writings ; we see them
every where illuminated, and, even according to the letter,
unanswerably confirmed, by the clearest declarations ofthe
Word. For it is a fundamental rule with him respecting
every doctrine of the church, that it must be drawn from
the literal meaning of the Word, taken in its proper
series and connexion, and confirmed thereby. This rule
he has pursued in all his doctrines, which are always
clearly proved by the most unquestionable passages of
Scripture. See, for example, how he has demonstrated,
in the Doctrine concerning the Lord, that there is but
one GOD; that JESUS CHRIST is that GOD ; and that in
HIM is the Divine Trinity, called FATHER, SON, and
HOLY SPIRIT.
"Every part, therefore, of Swedenborg’s writings will,
upon a due investigation, have a tendency to enable us
to see and to acknowledge,-first, an undeniable con
formity between his doctrines and the genuine meaning
of the Word of God : secondly, such a strength in the
demonstrations as cannot be overthrown if we take this
for a principle, that the doctrine of the church must be
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