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224 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
135, and the latter part of the preface to the Apocalypse
Revealed ; also in the work concerning Conjugial Love,
532 and surely mankind never received the revelation
of heavenly and divine truths with greater marks of cer
tainty than the present ; if, therefore, they are not ac
cepted, when they are now so rationally presented, it
cannot be expected that their acceptance can be accom
plished by the assistance of miracles and prophecies ; for
how can heavenly doctrine become ours, if it be not
accepted with our will and understanding ? That Swe
denborg has knowledge of hidden occurrences, has been
proved by a few well attested instances, but he is no ways
disposed to avail himself of them to procure assent and
credibility to his writings.
"IX. And further, reverend Sir, I would not wish
you to take Swedenborg’s declaration, in the conclusion
of his work upon Conjugial Love, respecting the future
publication of his doctrines, as if thereby he meant to set
himself up for a prophet, and to maintain that in the
course of two years the New Church would be established.
It is the doctrine of that church, to which he alludes,
and which he promised in two years should be published,
which accordingly took place. For in a letter which he
wrote to me from Amsterdam on the 20th of April last,
he mentions as follows :-
’ I wonder that your suit and
controversy still continue at Gottenburg, against which I
will urge a complaint at the next Diet, when I shall
transmit the Universal Theology of the New Heaven
and the New Church, which will appear in print at the
* This will be better understood when the reader is informed,
that at the end of the work on Conjugial Love, E. S. gave a list of
the theological works previously published by him, and concludes
with saying, " Intra biennium videbitis doctrinam Nova Ecclesiæ a
Domino prædictæ in Apocalypsi, xxi. xxii., in plenitudine ;" that is,
" In two years you will see the doctrine of the New Church fore
told bythe Lord in the Apocalypse, xxi. xxii., in its fulness," or
66 at large ;" alluding to the publication of the work entitled True
Christian Religion, containing the Universal Theology ofthe New
Church. That a learned man should have construed this notice
into a prediction of the speedy reception of the New Church
doctrine is not a little extraordinary.
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