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330 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
chain of argumentation which coheres no less perfectly than
a series of mathematical demonstrations for him who is able
to follow it, and which cannot be denied by any one who is
accustomed to such demonstrations ; that the first fundamental
principles are always retained and observed in everything that
follows, where they always fit in properly ; that nowhere occur
things impossible in themselves, but, on the contrary, all pure,
universally acknowledged truths may be traced there again,
and none of them is contradicted and weakened ; that in this
respect not a single instance in the history of literature can
be brought forward, which can at all be compared with the
works of this author ; that all his theoretical propositions have
a practical tendency, and are for the sake of practice ; that
the amendment of the life is therefore everywhere insisted
upon, so as to make us fit and to dispose us for heaven; that
it is impossible to form better subjects than by following out
the precepts of this doctrine ; and that in studying most
things in these books diligently and impartially, experience
teaches that the result of it is enlightenment in the under
standing, and an inclination to assent to what is written.
Let no one, therefore, in future apply to the author the
words with which Festus addressed Paul (Acts xxvi, 24).
"If, now, we approach our subject more closely, and com
pare these books with the Holy Bible and with the books
that have been adopted by the church, we find that the diffi
cult passages of the former are satisfactorily explained accord
ing to Assessor Swedenborg’s principles, and also that the
things hard to be understood’ in the writings of the Apostle
Paul [see 2 Peter iii, 16] are comprehended without difficulty.
"With regard to the confessional writings of the church,
the author adheres to the Apostles’ and the Nicene Creeds,
in which only One God and Lord is mentioned ; and in re
gard to the Athanasian Creed, that he acknowledges it as a
whole and in part, with the exception of the particular, that
we are to believe in God the Father, in God the Son, and in
God the Holy Spirit, and at the same time to think that the
Father is one, the Son another, and the Holy Spirit still
another, whence, in spite of all precautions, the idea of three
Gods becomes inevitably implanted in the minds of people
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