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Doc. 256.] CUNO’S LETTER TO SWEDENBORG. 465
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Trent, and compares it with the doctrine of the Protestants
in respect to justification, as set forth in the Formula Con
cordia of the Augsburg Confession. His doctrine in general
insists most strongly on good works. In his twenty-fifth thesis
he declares that the Roman Catholics, in respect to justific
ation, would be able to enter into the New Jerusalem before
the Evangelical. He tells both to their face that they are
wrong in worshipping three persons in the Godhead ; that
the Lord alone is God, and that in His person there is a
threefold Divine Essence. Be this as it may, I fully expected
that one of the many priests and preachers of our large town
would rise up against him. But after waiting in vain for more
than a month, I could no longer regard the matter with in
difference and coldness, and I therefore addressed the follow
ing letter to him:
C.
CUNO’S LETTER TO EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.*
"To the Most Learned and celebrated Mr. Emanuel Sweden
borg.
"I have read your works, and especially the
brief treatise lately published , where I have carefully noted
what seemed to me novel and paradoxical. As I have
nothing more at heart than religion and Christian truth, I
deemed it worth my while, not only to read your writings
cursorily, but also to examine and try them to the best of
my ability. I cannot deny that I have found in them much
* The original letter, of which a copy is preserved in Cuno’s MS. Auto
biography, bears the following address: Doctissimo ac celeberrimo viro
Emanueli Swedenborg S. P. D. Joannes Christianus Cuno, mercator Amste
lodamensis, Societatibus Teutonicis Gottingiæ, Gryphswaldiæ, Jenæ, et Helm
stadiæ adscriptus. It was printed in Hamburg in 1771, together with a
German translation, and an additional account of Swedenborg by Cuno (see
Document 256, E), under the pseudonym of David Paulus ab Indagine;
The German translation was also reprinted by Prelate Etinger in his
"Schwedische Urkunden," &c., 1771, pp. 113 to 124, and afterwards in
Hirsching’s Historisch-Litterarisches Handbuch, Vol. XIV, pp. 18 to 25,
under the head of Swedenborg.
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