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HIS REPLY TO DR. EKEBOM’S DEPOSITION. 147
Revealed, 8S0, 881 ; and that this same church, undoubtedly, is coming, because
the Lord himself has predicted it ; see Apocalypse xxi. and xxii. ; likewise
Zechariah xi v. 7.8,9; and in the last chapter of the Apocalypse, in these words :
’ f, Jesus, have sent mine angel, to testify unto you thtse things in the churches.
I am the root and race of David, the bright and morning star. And the spirit
and the bride say, Come. And let him who hearelh say. Come. And let him
who is willing, receive the water of life gratis ’ (16, 17).
" Emanuel Swedenboro.
"Amsterdam, April 15, 1769.
" P. S. I request this letter may be delivered to the venerable consistoiy, and
a copy of it to the right reverend Bishop.
" N. B. The then Bishop Erie Lamberg, president of the Consistory, was at
that time at a Diet in Norkjoping."
LETTER II.
" Before I set out on my journey to Paris, which I purpose to do next week, I
think proper to make the following addition to my foregoing ’
Reply’ to Dr. Eke-
bom’s ’Reflections.’ It was said therein, that I have written, I. That the Holy
Scriptures have hitherto been ill and sinistrously explained {Apoc. Rev. 1), which is
entirely untrue, as there is nothing of the kind to be found in the passage quoted.
II. That there is no satisfaction given for the sins of the world, which is also entirely
untrue. III. That I rail at justification byfaith alone. This is true, I allow, because
faith alone is faith separated from charity, or from good works, and faith sepa-
rated from charity h«.s been rejected by the imperial judgment at Stockholm, and
afterwards by the university at Upsal, and probably, likewise by those at Lund
and Abo. The Doctor is determined not to know, that good works, which are
said freely and spontaneously to follow faith, and are called the fruits of faith,
the works of the Spirit, and the works of grace, and which are performed in a
state of justification, have agreeably to the Formula Concordia, no connexion with
faith, and, accordingly, do not contribute at all to salvation : nay, that it Avould
be detrimental, if they should combine and mix themselves with faith, and that
which is without connexion, is in itself separate. Among the quotations from
the Formula Concordice concerning the Divinity of Christ, there are some num-
bers in my former reply erroneously set down, viz., 337, 375, ought to be 737,
775 ; for which reason I adjoin herewith a more distinct and copious extract
from the Formula Concordice, from the Leipsic edition, 1756, as follows : —That in
Christ God is Man, and Man is God, 607, 765. That Christ, true God and Man,
is in one indivisible Person, and abideth to eternity, 600, 762, 763, 840. That
Christ, as to the Human Nature, has been raised to the omnipotent power of God,
forasmuch as He was suen a man that the Human Nature had so close, and so in-
effable an union and communion with the Son of God, as to become One Person,
607. That Christ’s Human Nature has been exalted to the Divine Majesty and
Power, is known from the Council of Ephesus, and Chalcedon; next from the
fathers, as Athanasius, Augustin, Chrysostom, Eusebius, Cyril, Eustachius, Greg-
ory, Epiphanius, Theodoret, Basil the Great, Theophylact, Hilary, Origen, Niceph-
orus, Nyssenius, Vigilius Leo, 840, 878. It is ^Iso confirmed from the Word in
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