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TESTIMONY OF THE REV. J. CLOWES. 265
by himself, he gives an account of the manner in which
he became acquainted with Swedenborg’s theological
writings. After stating his views respecting the great
superiority of these writings, he concludes thus :
"The author (of this Memoir) cannot conclude his
narrative, without offering up to the Father of Mercies
his most devout and grateful acknowledgments for the
extraordinary privilege, and inestimable blessing vouch
safed him, in having been admitted to the knowledge and
acknowledgment of the truth and importance of the doc
trines unfolded by Swedenborg from the Word of God
as the genuine doctrines of christianity. For what
worldly glory, gain, or happiness, can stand in compe
tition with this,-to know Jesus Christ to be the only
true God, and to be allowed to approach and worship
Him in His Divine Humanity; to be delivered thus
from all perplexity as to the proper object of worship ; to
see, at the same time, the divine volume of Revelation
opened ; its interior treasures displayed; its evidence
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and authority thus confirmed by its divine contents ; its
apparent contradictions reconciled ; whilst all that is divine
and holy, all that is good and true, all that is calculated
to excite the veneration of intelligent beings, and the
affection of penitent ones ; all, in short, that has a ten
dency either to enlighten the human understanding, or to
purify the human will ; either to edify, by the bright and
profound lessons of divine truth, or to soften and console
by the sweet and tender influences of the divine love, is
perceivedto proceed from this Divine Fountain, as its only
source ! Yet such is the transcendent glory, gain, and
happiness imparted to every penitent and devout receiver
of the above Heavenly Doctrines. Add to this, the near
ness and connexion between this world and another,
demonstrated by such a weight of irresistible evidence ;
the great evangelical doctrines of Faith, of Charity, of
Repentance and Remission of Sins, of Temptation, Refor
mation, Regeneration, and the Freedom of the Will,
opened, explained, andenforced, according to their edifying
and important meaning; the nature, also, and effect of the
LastJudgment,the Lord’s Second Advent, and the descent.
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