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HIS REPLY TO DR. EKEBOM’S DEPOSITION 14(
XXIV.
SWEDENBORG’S REPLY
TO
DR. EKEBOM’S DEPOSITION.
DELIVERED TO THE CONSISTORY AT GOTTENBURG, MARCH 22, 1769.
In connection with Dr. Beyer’s" Declaration, ^c." are the two letters which Sweden-
borg wrote in reply to Dr. Ekebom’s " Deposition," which he delivered to the Consistory
as containing the objections which he raised against Swedenborg’s theological writings.
These two letters are probably the same which Swedenborg mentions in his letter to
the king.*
"Dr. Ekebom’s ’Reflections’ have been communicated to me, which he deli-
vered in the Consistory, relative to the doctrines of the New Church, which have
been declared to the world in the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem, and the Apocalypse
Revealed, by our Saviour Jesus Christ, through me His servant ; and, forasmuch
as I find, that the Doctor’s ’Reflections’ are full of reproaches against me, as
well as occasionally laden with untruths, I deem it too prolix to reply particu-
larly to them, especially as I perceive they have been written by a person, who
gives no bridle to his tongue, and who has no eyes in his forehead, to be able to
see what is to be found in those writings, conformable to the Word of God, and
to an enlightened uhderstanding; such are the characters whom our Lord de-
scribes in Matt. xiii. 13, 14, 15. 1 shall only notice the following words from the
Doctor’s ’ Reflections :’ That this doctrine is in the highest degree heretical, and, in points
the most tender to every Christian, Socinian. This doctrine cannot be called hereti-
cal, forasmuch as in it is acknowledged and confirmed : I. The Divine Trinity;
see the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning the Lord, 55, seq., and the Apoca-
lypse Revealed, 961, 962. II. The Sanctity of the Holy Scripture, especially as to its
literal sense ; see the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Sacred Scriptures,
27, seq., 37, seq., 50, seq., and in the Apocalypse Revealed, 200, 898, 911. III. A
Christian Life; see the Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, from the Precepts
of the Decalogue, from the beginning to the end. IV, The Union of Faith and
Charity; see the Apocalypse Revealed, in various places. And, V. That a Faith in
God must he directed towards our Saviour, according to his own declaration, John iii,
15, 16 ; vi. 40 ; xi. 25, 26 ; XX. 31 ; and especially John iii. 35, 36, and Col. ii. 9.
Likewise from the Formula Concordice, that in Jesus Christ, God is Man, and Man
is God, 607, 762, 763, 765, 840, seq. That His Haman Nature has been exalted
to the Divine Power and Majesty, 337, seq., 607, 608, seq., 774, 833, seq, 844,
847, 852, 861, 863, 869. That unto Jesus Christ was given all power in Heaven
and Earth, 775, 776, 780, 833. That also as to His Human Nature He fills all
things by His immediate presence, 337, 375, 600, 608,611,738,768,783,784,
785, 786; App. 149, 150, with many more passages: see the edition, Leipsic,
* See above p. 71.
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