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198 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
mandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ.’ That the New Jerusalem, signifies the New
Church, which is to be the bride and the wife of the
Lamb, see Apocalypse Revealed, 880, 881 ; and that this
same church, undoubtedly, is coming, because the Lord
Himself has predicted it ; see Apocalypse xxi. and xxii. ;
likewise Zechariah xiv. 7, 8, 9 ; and in the last chapter
of the Apocalypse, in these words : I, Jesus, have sent
mine angel, to testify unto you these things in the
churches. I am the root and race of David, the bright
and morning star. And the spirit and the bride say,
Come. And let him who heareth say, Come. And let
him who is willing, receive the water of life gratis.’
( 16, 17.)
"
" EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
"Amsterdam, April 15, 1769.
" P.S. I request this letter may be delivered to the
venerable consistory, and a copy of it to the right
reverend Bishop.
"N.B. The then Bishop Erie Lamberg, president of
the Consistory, was at that time at a Diet in Norkjoping."
LETTER II.
"Before I set out on my journey to Paris, which I
purpose to do next week, I think proper to make the fol
lowing addition to my foregoing ’ Reply’ to Dr. Ekebom’s
’ Reflections.’ It was said therein, that I have written,
I. That the Holy Scriptures have hitherto been ill and
sinistrously explained, (Apoc. Rev. 1. ) which is entirely
untrue, as there is nothing of the kind to be found in the
passage quoted. II. That there is no satisfaction given
for the sins of the world, which is also entirely untrue.
III. That I rail at justification byfaith alone. This
is true I allow, because faith alone is faith separated from
charity, or from good works, and faith separated from
charity has been rejected by the imperial judgment at
Stockholm, and afterwards by the university at Upsal,
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