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298 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
Matt. xiii, 13 to 15. I shall take from the Doctor’s opinion
only these words, that the doctrine is ’in the highest degree
heretical and in most of its parts Socinian.’
"The doctrine cannot be called heretical, since it acknow
ledges and affirms : first, the Divine Trinity (see ’Doctrine of
the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord , ’ no. 55 and the
following numbers, also ’Apocalypse Revealed,’ nos. 961 , 962) ;
secondly, the Sanctity of the Holy Scripture, especially its
literal sense (see ’Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture,’ no. 27 et seq.,
no. 37 et seq., no. 50 et seq., and ’Apocalypse Revealed’ nos. 200,
898, 911 ) ; thirdly, a Christian Life (see ’Doctrine of Life for
the New Jerusalem from the precepts of the Decalogue,’ from
beginning to end) ; fourthly, the connection between Faith and
Charity (see ’Apocalypse Revealed,’ in many places) ; fifthly,
that Faith in God must be based upon our Saviour, accord
ing to His own words in John iii, 15, 16 ; vi, 40 ; xi, 25, 26 ;
and xx, last verse ; but especially John iii , 35, 36 , and
Col. ii, 9. Likewise, in accordance with the Formula Con
cordiæ , where we read that in Jesus Christ, God is Man,
and Man God, pp. 607, 762, 763, 765, 840 et seq.; that His
Human Essence has been exalted into Divine Majesty and power,
pp. 337 et seq., 607, 608 et seq., 774, 834 et seq., 844, 847, 852,
861, 863, 869 ; that Jesus Christ has all power in heaven and
on earth, pp. 775, 776, 780, 833 ; that also as to His Human
Essence He governs all things by His most immediate presence,
pp. 337, 375, 600, 608, 611 , 738 , 768, 783, 784, 785, 786,
Appendix, pp. 149, 150 ; besides many other things (see edition
of Leipzig, 1765) .
"On the strength of all these passages, and of what the
Lord Himself teaches in John xiv, 6 to 11, according to the
doctrine of the New Church, Faith in God is based on the
Saviour Himself. From this alone it may be seen with how
little show of reason and lack of pertinence this doctrine has
been attacked with abusive language, and further, that no one
of sound understanding can say that it is full of the most
intolerable fundamental errors,’ that it is ’corrupting, heretical,
injurious, and in the highest degree objectionable.’ Such
abusive language is used, although the Dean in his Opinion
(§ 2) admits his not having read my writings, in these words:
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