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Doc. 245.] DR. BEYER’S DEFENCE. 333
think in agreement with heaven, and all their thoughts are
from the Word and in accordance with the Word, for the
Lord is the Word (John i, 1 , 14). What other exalted ideas
we ought to entertain respecting the incomparable Sacred
Scriptures he shows and proves in his work respecting the
’Sacred Scripture,’ and in that respecting the ’
White Horse.’
And in case the question should be raised, why such an
understanding of the Sacred Scripture is now brought for
ward for the first time, a full and satisfactory answer will be
found in many parts of his writings ; as for instance in the
book entitled ’ The Angelic Wisdom respecting the Divine
Providence,’ no. 264.
"If now, after what has been said, we come to judge of
the doctrines which are found everywhere in his writings, but
especially in those books which with respect to their contents
belong to the second class of his works, it can scarcely be
expected otherwise, than that we shall find them everywhere
resplendent with light, and confirmed by the distinct utterances
of the Word itself, even by its very letter, and, indeed, in a
manner which cannot be contradicted (my unpretending, humble
meaning here is, that cannot be contradicted by impartial,
diligent searchers for the truth). A fundamental rule with
him in regard to every doctrine of the church is, that it
must be drawn and collected from, and at the same time
confirmed by, the literal meaning of the Word, but by one
who has been duly illustrated for this purpose in the Word
(’Sacred Scripture,’ no. 50 et seq.). Thi srule he has observed
with every one of his doctrines, and in agreement therewith he
has clearly proved them by unanswerable passages of Scripture
in more than a hundred places in his writings. For instance,
with respect to the doctrine that there is only One God, and
that Jesus Christ is that God, and that in His essence and
person there is a real Trinity, called Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, see the ’Arcana Coelestia,’ nos. 3061 , 3704, 9030 ;
’Apocalypse Revealed,’ nos. 613, 962; ’ Doctrine of the Lord,’
no. 60. This doctrine, as taught there, agrees almost altogether
with what a Lutheran teacher of the church, the very celebrated
Chancellor Mosheim, has stated in his Theologia Dogmatica,
pp. 310, 311 , 312 (Edition of 1764), where he quotes what
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