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236 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
by the Abbé Deacon Paris,* which are nothing but
falsehoods, being partly fantastic and partly magical ; and
it is the same with the other miracles of the Roman
Catholics. Examine, I pray you, what I have said on
the subject of miracles in that work. At this day, faith
will be established and confirmed in the New Church,
only by the Word itself and by the truths it reveals ;
truths which appear in light to the reader of my last work,
which is itself an indication that the Lord is present and
enlightens him. For every truth contained in the Word
shines in heaven ; and comes down from thence into this
world, to those who love truth because it is truth.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
" EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
"Amsterdam, July 13, 1771."
SWEDENBORG’S LETTER
ΤΟ
MR. WENNGREN, +
ONE OF THE MAGISTRATES OF GOTTENBURG.
"ESTEEMED FRIEND,
"I have received your letter, together with the records
concerning the boy who can cure diseases ; with respect
* This man was born in the city of Paris, in 1690, of a good
family. He became a priest, took deacon’s orders, and attached
himselfto the Jansenist, or high orthodox party. He renounced
his inheritance, and devoted himself to poverty and labour; and
at his death in 1727, was buried in the church-yard of St. Medard.
In his life he had acquired a sort of celebrity, and the Jansenists
made use of it after his death, to give them an advantage over
their enemies, the Jesuits. Astonishing miracles took place, or
seemed to take place, at his tomb, which it was impossible to
account for or explain. The whole affair produced so much ex
citement and disturbance, that, five years after his death, the
church-yard where he was buried was walled up by order of
government.
See above p. 90.
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