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EKEBOM AGAINST SWEDENBORG.
Proceeding (i. e. as much as I could gather on this subject),
the Divine virtue and operation which enlightens and sanctifies
us, is the Holy Spirit (cfr. A. R. pp. 59, 629, Latin edition).
(c) "No satisfaction for the sins of the world is given. The
purpose of Christ’s Coming into the world was the subjugation
of hell, and its removal from man; and Christ removed it by
contests against it, and victories over it ; and He reduced it
into order and under obedience to Him (A. R. pp. 59, 60).
(a) "Justification by faith alone is abused, with gross con
tempt, throughout the whole of Swedenborg’s work.
(e) The following is his explanation of the essential parts of
the Holy Supper: By the bread and the blood of the Lord
nothing else can be understood than the Divine in itself, and
from itself; by flesh is understood the Divine Good of the
Divine Love, and by blood the Divine Truth from that Good
(A. R., p. 208, Latin Edition).
(f) "Of the conversations and statements of those who de
parted this life with a profession of faith alone, I find a
short, but derisive doctrinal exposition in the memorable
relation on p. 208 of the Apocalypsis Revelata.
"In consideration of what I have here quoted to you in
haste, I submit to your judgment, whether Swedenborgianism
is not in all its parts diametrically opposed to God’s revealed
Word, and the dogmatic writings of the Lutheran church ;
whether it is not full of the most intolerable fundamental
errors, which overturn the very foundation of faith and of the
whole Christian religion ; and, consequently, whether it is, not
merely schismatic, but in the highest degree heretical, and in
most of its parts Socinian and thus, in every sense, objectionable?
"For the above reason, and by virtue of my office as a
member of the Consistory, and as a pastor in this town
where Assessor Swedenborg has resided some time,* and has
had opportunity for spreading his views and attaching to
himself disciples, I cannot refrain from urging the following re
solutions :
* Swedenborg never resided in Gottenburg; he only passed through it
on his way to Holland or England.
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