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246 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 228.
Will you kindly point out to me some one in Stockholm
who will take the copies in charge?
The question is discussed by some, whether the present
day is the consummation of the age, and at the same time
the Coming of the Lord, and [the establishment of] a New
Church by Him. Some believe that the faith of the present
day, which is a faith in God the Father for the sake of the
Son, is the real saving faith; but in the Apocalypsis Revelata
it is shown that that faith has destroyed the church, that it
has abolished religion, and that it has thus devastated and
consummated all things of worship, so that there is no longer
any truth nor any good, and that the works which are called
the fruits of that faith, are nothing else than such eggs as
are treated of in Isa. lix, 5 ; wherefore they who have confirmed
themselves in that faith with its [spider’s] web, and who be
lieve that the goods which they do are the fruits of that faith,
are very much deceived and in a state of delirium; nor can
they be led out of this state except by rejecting the confirm
ation of that faith, and by adopting faith in Jesus Christ,
which contains no such things ; concerning this faith see "The
Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting Faith," nos. 34
to 37.
The falsities of the faith of the present time are these :
First, That the Lord has taken away the damnation of the
Law; when yet He has not taken away the least jot of the
Law; for every one will be judged according to his works,
Rom. ii, 10, 13 ; 2 Cor. v, 10, &c. But the Lord has taken
away damnation, because without His coming into the world
no one could have been saved. Secondly, That the Lord has
fulfilled the Law is, indeed, the truth; for thereby He has
alone become justice or righteousness ; but thereby He has
not delivered man from the Law: for the Lord fulfils it with
all those who shun their evils as sins, and approach Him only;
because they who shun certain sins which they discover in
themselves, are in the effort to shun all sins, as soon as they
become acquainted with them. Thirdly, That the Lord’s
merit should be imputed to man, is a thing impossible ;
the Lord’s merits are two in number, viz., His having sub
jugated hell, and His having glorified His humanity. These
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