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196 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
towards our Saviour, according to His own declaration ;
John iii. 15, 16, vi. 40, xi. 25, 26, xx. 31 ; and espe
cially John iii. 35, 36, and Col. ii. 9. Likewise from
the Formula Concordia, That in Jesus Christ, God is
Man, and Man is God, 607, 762, 763, 765, 840,
seq. That His Human Nature has been exalted to the
Divine Power and Majesty, 337, seq., 607, 608, seq.,
774, 833, seq., 844, 847, 852, 861, 863, 869. That
unto Jesus Christ was given all power in Heaven and
Earth, 775, 776, 780, 833. That also as to His
Human Nature He fills all things by His immediate
presence, 337, 375, 600, 608, 611 , 738, 768, 783,
784, 785, 786 ; App. 149, 150, with many more pas
sages : see the edition, Leipsic, 1765. Agreeably to
these references, and in obedience to what the Lord
Himself teaches in John xiv. 16, faith in God must be
directed towards the Saviour Himself. From this alone
it may be concluded, how undeservedly and barefacedly
this doctrine has been attacked with such opprobrious
language, and that it could not have been said by a man
of a sound heart, That it is full of the most intolerable
fundamental errors, seducing, heretical, captious, and
in the highest degree to be rejected. This flood of
blasphemy is poured out upon the world, although the
Doctor allows in his ’ Reflections,’ 2, that he never read
my writings, in the following words :-
’ I do not know
Assessor Swedenborg’s religious system, nor shall I take
pains to come at the knowledge of it. I was told that it
may chiefly be learned from the following works, which
he has published, viz ., Concerning the New Jerusalem,
Concerning Faith, and Concerning the Lord, works which
I do not possess, neither have I read or seen them.’ Is
not this to be blind in the forehead, but to have eyes
behind, and even these covered with a film ? To see
and judge of writings in such a manner, and in such
like terms, can any secular or ecclesiastical judge regard
otherwise than as criminal ? The book entitled, The
Doctrine ofthe New Church, mentioned by the Doctor,
may be had at Gottenburg, so that, ifhe had pleased, he
might have had a sight of it. The Doctor blasphemes,
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