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Doc. 245.] 301
SWEDENBORG TO BEYER.
G.
TWELFTH LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO DR. BEYER.22
"Reverend Doctor,
"
"Before departing for Paris next week I desire
to make the following addition to the reply I made to Dr.
Ekebom’s Opinion. It is stated there that I have written :
First, ’that the Sacred Scripture has been hitherto badly and
perversely explained’ (Apocalypse Revealed, p. 21 , no. 1);
this is a pure falsehood, for in the place quoted no expression
like this occurs. Secondly, ’ that no satisfaction is given for
the sins of the world,’ which is likewise a pure falsehood.
Thirdly, that justification by faith alone is abused.’ This
is true, since faith alone is faith separate from charity or
good works ; and faith separated from charity has been rejected
by the Court of Appeals in Stockholm ; and also afterwards
by the University of Upsal, and probably also by the Universities
of Lund and Abo. Dr. Ekebom,179 it seems, does not yet know
that good works which follow faith freely and spontaneously,
and are called fruits of faith, works of the spirit, and works
of grace, and which are done in a state of justification, accord
ing to the Formula Concordiæ itself have no connection with
faith, and therefore do not contribute anything to salvation ;
nay it is stated that it would be injurious should they connect
and mix themselves with faith ; and that which has no connection
is in itself separate. Among the quotations from the Formula
Concordiæ concerning the Divinity of Christ which I sent in
my last reply, some are erroneously given, viz. 337, 375 which
ought to be 737, 775. On the same subject I add here a
clearer and more comprehensive collection of extracts from
the Formula Concordia (see the Leipzig edition of 1765),
* The Swedish original, from which the above translation has been made
was printed first in the "Handlingar," &c. of 1769 (pp. 28 to 31). It was
afterwards reprinted as Letter VII in the "Samlingar för Philantroper"
for 1788. The first English translation was published in the "Intellectual
Repository" for 1812, in conjunction with Document 245, F, and thence
was transferred to the English and American editions of the " Swedenborg
Documents."
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