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DOCUMENT 240.
EIGHTH LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO DR. BEYER.22 *
Reverend Doctor,
I had the pleasure of receiving yours of
November 23, 1768. The reason I did not answer it sooner
was, that I postponed until a little work was published en
titled, "A Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church
signified by the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation,"
in which work are fully shown the errors of the hitherto re
ceived doctrine of justification by faith alone, and the impu
tation of the righteousness or merit of Christ. This treatise
was sent by me to all the clergy in Holland, and will come
into the hands of the most eminent in Germany. I have been
informed that they have attentively perused it, and that some
have already discovered the truth, while others do not know
which way to turn ; for what is written therein is sufficient to
convince any one that the above-mentioned doctrine is the
cause of our having at the present day no theology in Christen
dom. I intend sending to you by the first ship twelve copies
of the work, which you will please to dispose of in the following
manner : one copy to the Bishop, † one to the Dean, and the
* The Swedish original, from which the above translation has been made,
is preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm . It
was published in the "Samlingar för Philantroper" in 1788, as Letter V.
The first English translation appeared in the "New Jerusalem Magazine"
of 1790, (p. 141). And this translation was afterwards introduced as Letter V
into the English and American editions of the "Swedenborg Documents."
Bishop Lamberg (see Note 178).
Dr. Ekebom (see Note 179).
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