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270 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
to mankind in His Divine Word and Person, the blessed
powers of heavenly light and life, so he is at this day
effecting similar blessed purposes, by opening anew
His Holy Word, which has been heretofore unhappily
closed, and by supplying thence to mankind such solid
and eternal principles of justice and judgment, goodness
and truth, as may tend to remove from them all contrary
infernal principles of iniquity and error, and reinstate
them thus in that blessed communication with heaven, of
order, harmony, righteousness, and peace, for which they
were created and this, it is further insisted, is the real
sense, import, and perfect fulfilment, of many of the
prophetic declarations in Holy Scripture concerning the
Lord’s second coming, and the NewJerusalem.
"I am well aware that at the very first hearing, many
amongst you will be disposed to reject the whole of this
testimony. But be it so : let us suppose it, for a moment,
as false and fabulous as you conceive it to be : the obli
gations of duty, resulting from your sacred character, as
ministers of the truth, are not at all affected by such a
supposition: nay, the more of fable and falsehood there
is in the above testimony, the more incumbent it is upon
you to examine carefully, and with serious deliberation,
the writings which contain it, in order to discover where
the error and deceit lie, that so you may guard your
respective flocks against the specious and spreading
delusion.
" For whatever may be your sentiments on the subject,
this is a notorious fact, that the delusion ( if you will call
it a delusion,) is both specious and spreading. Thou
sands, in this and in other kingdoms, have already yielded
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their unfeigned assent to the testimony which you con
ceive to be false and fabulous. There are few towns of
any consequence in this island, but what contain in the
body of their inhabitants, readers, and zealous patrons of
the writings of Baron Swedenborg. I speak from know
ledge and experience when I make this assertion, and
when I moreover add, that several of your own order, also,
begin to be convinced that something more than fable or
falsehood is contained in the honourable author’s tes
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