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Doc. 245.] 291
BEYER ON EKEBOM.
C.
DR. BEYER’S REPLY TO DR. EKEBOM.*
"As a further and necessary complement of
the passages which Dr. Ekebom179 entered on the Minutes,
on March 22, from Assessor Swedenborg’s theological works,
I desire to communicate here a passage upon which I lighted
in his last published work on ’ Conjugial and Scortatory Love’
(no. 82) ; because it furnishes a kind of summary of the
Assessor’s system of religion. The passage referred to li- .
terally translated reads as follows : ’ Afterwards a man came
running from the northern quarter in great haste ; he looked
at me with a threatening countenance, and addressing me
in a passionate tone of voice , said : "Art thou he that
wishes to seduce the world by instituting a New Church which
thou understandest by the New Jerusalem about to come down
from God out of heaven ; and by teaching that the Lord will
gift with love truly conjugial those who embrace the doctrines
of that church ; the delights and felicity of which love thou
exaltest to heaven ? Is not this a mere fiction ? and dost thou
not hold it forth as a bait and enticement for others to accede
to thy new [ doctrines] ? But tell me briefly, what are those
doctrines of the New Church that I may see whether they
agree or disagree ?" I replied , "The doctrines of the church
understood by the New Jerusalem are as follows : First, That
there is one God, in whom is the Divine Trinity, and that
He is the Lord Jesus Christ. Secondly, That a saving faith
is to believe in Him. Thirdly, that evils are to be shunned
because they are of the devil, and from the devil. Fourthly,
that goods are to be done because they are of God, and from
God. Fifthly, that these are to be done by man as from him
self; but that it ought to be believed that they are done by
the Lord with man, and by means of man.” Having heard
these things his fury abated for a while ; but after some delibe
ration he again looked at me with a stern countenance, and
said: "Are these five precepts the doctrines of the faith and
* See "Handlingar," &c. pp. 11 to 14.
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