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EXTRACT OF A LETTER
FROM
DR. BEYER TO DR. OETINGER,
AT MURRHARD.
Dr. Oetinger corresponded with Dr. Beyer, to whom
he stated several objections respecting Swedenborg’s
writings ; the following letter contains these objections
and their refutation. These objections, it is evident from
what Oetinger afterwards wrote in his different works,
and especially in that entitled " The High Priesthood of
Christ," (see above pp. 204-206,) were to a great
extent, if not entirely, removed. Dr. Beyer’s letter is
as follows :
"I could wish that you and Swedenborg, as being two
eminently learned and honest men, entertained the same
opinions ; but notwithstanding the difference which sub
sists between you on theological points, your indefatigable
and unalterable love for truth, which shines so conspicu
ously, gives me an assurance that it will very shortly be
removed ; yea, that you will even accede to Swedenborg’s
sentiments with a full assent, should you be pleased, and
would your duties permit you, to take a deeper and more
general view of all his writings.
"For myself, whilst I am reading, neither his name,
nor the dignity of his person, passes before my eyes,
which he indeed himself wishes to extinguish, in order
that the reader may only hold in honour the holiness of
the subjects on which he treats : and I am no longer led
to inquire, by what deep attainments in sciences and phi
losophy he had arrived at celebrity before the year 1745,
but my whole endeavour is, to acquire a rational judg
ment of his theosophical doctrines, according to the true
Biblical theosophy. Besides, it is impossible to see
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