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LETTER FROM DR. BEYER TO DR. OETINGER. 225
end of June. I will send two copies to each member of
the Diet, and request that they may appoint from all the
respective orders, an assembly of deputies to give their
final decision.’
"But previous to this, he wrote me a letter from Am
sterdam, dated the 15th of April, 1769, wherein he
informs me, ’ That he had often been questioned there,
respecting the New Church, and that his answer to the
inquiries was, that it will increase by little and little in
proportion as the doctrine of justification and imputation
gradually lose ground, which probably will take place in
consequence of the treatise entitled, A Summary Expo
sition ofthe Doctrine ofthe New Church. It is known
that the Christian Church did not gain an immediate
ascendancy after the Resurrection of Christ, but increased
by degrees and in this manner the words of the Revela
tion are to be understood ; The woman did fly into the
wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and
times, and halfa time, from the face ofthe serpent.
(Apoc. xii. 14. ) The serpent and the dragon is the
false doctrine.’
" X. I will leave it now to the judgment of candid
minds, (amongst whom I reckon and respect yourself,
reverend Sir, with your son-in-law Mr. Seitz, and the
sincere Karg, to whom I beg my respects,) whether they
can regard the New Church, to which the whole Revela
tion of John refers, as a Swedenborgian invention, or not
rather undoubtedly consider it as a work of the finger of
God and our Lord, and as a church which is to be looked
for with the most earnest desire.
"What man could invent such things of himself, asks
Swedenborg in his Continuation of the Last Judgment,
7; and, accordingly, when I shall have heard, that what
I have now written, though too long for a letter, yet con
sidering the importance of the matter, too short, has not
displeased you, though in all the points I may not have
given full satisfaction, I shall count it not a very small
gain.
"Since Doctor Rosen, who is at Stockholm, and
myself, have not in express terms renounced the Swe
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