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278 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
you believe on Him yourselves, as the one only Lord and
God of heaven and earth, and do you teach your people
so to believe on Him ? do you acknowledge the Father
and the Son to be one in Him, as He Himself has taught,
and that of consequence He is the manifested Jehovah,
the sole Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator of man ?
or rather, have not some amongst you entirely rejected
this your God, by denying His divinity ? and have not
others divided this one only Lord and God into three,
making one God of the Father, another of the Son, and
another of the Holy Ghost ? do not you regard Jesus
Christ either as a mere creature, or as a Divine Person,
separate from, and subordinate to, the Father ? do not
you regard the Holy Ghost as a Person separate from
both, assigning to each separately distinct attributes and
offices ? is not your idea of God become thus altogether
confused and perplexed, so that you know not to what, or
to whom, to direct your worship , sometimes addressing
yourselves to the Father, sometimes to the Son, and
sometimes to the Holy Ghost, but never to Jesus Christ
alone, as the one only God, in whose Divine Person the
sacred Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is con
tained ? And let me ask further, Is not this confusion
and perplexity in your ideas of Jesus Christ manifested
bywant of power in your public preaching and ministry?
are not your people left hereby unconverted, unreformed,
and unedified, not being directed to that one redeeming
Lord God, who can alone truly convert, reform, and
edify them is not Jesus Christ therefore, in reality,
disbelieved in, and are not His commandments of con
sequence disobeyed ; and is not this too generally
evidenced in the lives of your people, by the want of
those signs ever attendant on a true faith and obedience,
viz., repentance, deliverance from the power of evil, and
renovation of life, according to the law and order of
heaven, grounded in the pure love of God and man ? I
should be exceedingly sorry to judge herein an un
righteous judgment, or to lead others to do so ; but surely
the growing iniquity of the times is a pressing reason to
suspect that all is not right herein, and as pressing a
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