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128 BOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
"I send herewith a Httle treatise, printed in London, entitled, De Comwerao
Animal et Corporis, which has been sent to the societies and universities in Eng-
land and France. Please to peruse the latter part of it: most likely it is also
translated into English. I gave only to bishop Benzelstierna that little treatise,
entitled, A Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the Netu Church, enjoining him at the
same time, in the strictest manner, to take care not to let it pass into other peo-
ple’s hands, because there are but very few in Sweden, whose miderstandings
are receptive of true theology, and therefore the light that is given from the
Word of God, is not received by them. As, for instance, what is said in Rom.
iii. 28, and in Gal. ii. 16, where an imputative faith of the merits of Christ is not
meant, but real faith in Jesus, which is a faith from Him and in Him. Neither
are the works of the lav/ of the Decalogue meant in those places, but the works-
of the Mosaic law, proper to the Jews. Neither is Rom. iv. to be understood of
the imputation of the present church, &c., nor will they be enlightened by such).|
Scripture texts as concern the Son of God ; that by the Son of God is not to be un-^-
derstood any Son of God from eternity, but the Son of God conceived in time from..
Jehovah God, and born of the Virgin Mary, according to the very words them- i
selves, in Luke i. 32-35 ; Matt. iii. 17 ; xvii. 5 ; John xx. 31 ; 1st Epistle of John
V. 20, 21, and other places. This is Lkewise agreeable to the Apostolic Creed,
where no other Son of God is mentioned, and consequently the primitive church
knew of no other.
" That a Son of God from eternity was mserted in the Nicene and Athanasian
Creeds, arose from this, that they found no other way to refute and banish the
Arian errors. (See the Apostolic Creed.) I therefore adhere to the Apostolic ’]
Church.
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To call on God the Saviour, can in nowise be denied throughout Christendom,
and still less by the Lutherans who abide by the Augustine confession, p. 19;fj
and also in the Apology, p. 226 ; and, moreover, that in Christ Man is God, and’
God is Man; as also many other particulars already mentioned. The Formula
Concordice likewise explains a Divine Trinity in those that are renewed through >|
faith, p. 695, Apol. p. 130; but which in reality is not a true explication of thei
Divine Trinity in God the Saviour, as shall be fully demonstrated in that work, i\
which I intend laying before the public within the space of two years. In the
meantime, the Brief Exposition, as a forerunner of it, will prepare the way for
its reception. This treatise has been dispersed throughout Christendom, Swe-
den excepted, and that for this reason : because true divinity exists there only
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in its wintry state; and, in general, towards the North Pole, there is a greater
length of spiritual night than in the southern parts; and therefore, those who
stand ill that darkness may be supposed to kick and stumble more than others
against everything in the New Church, which is the produce of an unprejudiced
reason and understandhig; yet, at the same time, we are to admit of some
exceptions to his observation in the ecclesiastical order. I apply to myself
what our Saviour says to His disciples. Matt. x. 16.
" The remarkable particulars related concerning your wife, in her dying hours,
were wrought through the impression of two clergymen, who so directed and
employed her thoughts in conversation, as to effect a conjunction with such
spirits as she then spoke of. In the hour of death, it happens at times, to some
people, that they are in a state of the spirit. The spirits, who first spoke through
her, were of the dragon’s society, that were cast out of heaven, agreeably to the
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