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HIS REPLY TO DR. EKEBOM’S DEPOSITION. 195
sistory as containing the objections which he raised
against Swedenborg’s theological writings. These two
letters are probably the same which Swedenborg men
tions in his letter to the king.*
LETTER I.
"
"Dr. Ekebom’s Reflections’ have been communicated
to me, which he delivered in the Consistory, relative to the
doctrines of the New Church, which have been declared
to the world in the Doctrine ofthe New Jerusalem, and
the Apocalypse Revealed, by our Saviour Jesus Christ,
through me His servant ; and, forasmuch as I find, that
the Doctor’s ’ Reflections’ are full of reproaches against me,
as well as occasionally laden with untruths, I deem it too
prolix to reply particularly to them, especially as I per
ceive they have been written by a person, who gives no
bridle to his tongue, and who has no eyes in his forehead,
to be able to see what is to be found in those writings,
conformable to the Word of God, and to an enlightened
understanding ; such are the characters whom our Lord
describes in Matt. xiii. 13, 14, 15. I shall only notice
the following words from the Doctor’s Reflections :’ That
this doctrine is in the highest degree heretical, and in
points the most tender to every Christian, Socinian.
This doctrine cannot be called heretical, forasmuch as in
it is acknowledged and confirmed : I. The Divine Trinity;
see the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the
Lord, 55, seq., and the Apocalypse Revealed, 961 , 962.
II. The Sanctity of the Holy Scripture, especially as to
its literal sense ; see the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem,
concerningthe Sacred Scriptures, 27, seq., 37, seq., 50,
seq., and in the Apocalypse Revealed, 200, 898, 911 .
III. A Christian Life; see the Doctrine of Life for the
New Jerusalem, from the Precepts of the Decalogue,
from the beginning to the end. IV . The Union ofFaith
and Charity; see the Apocalypse Revealed, in various
places. And, V. That afaith in God must be directed
* See above P. 84.
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