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470 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 256.
and, indeed, exactly as it had taken place. It is well known
that people are generally interested in new and wonderful
things, and listen to them most eagerly. Several of my friends
have related to me this occurrence. Yet each time I heard
it, gossip had added some new and curious circumstances to
your miracle. You yourself have told me, that this occurrence
has actually taken place. Tell it then to the unbelieving
world. You owe this to the cause of truth ; for you have at
least a Queen and the great King for your witnesses. Perhaps
they will suffice.*
"One eye-witness is worth more than ten who have heard
a thing by report. You have both heard and seen things.
Yet the world has the right to exact additional testimony
to your own, that you have actually seen and heard those
things.
"Royal ambassadors have credentials without which they
are neither accepted nor listened to. You present yourself
before the world without credentials as an ambassador from
heaven; and, indeed, such a one as was refused by Abraham
to Dives in hell (Luke xvi, 25 et seq.) . For Abraham replied
to the rich man : ’If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.’
But what mortal is willing to believe another mortal who still
dwells among the living?
"We have Moses and the prophets, and we have the
adorable Author of Christianity: let us hear them. We have,’
according to the testimony of Peter (2nd Epistle i, 19), ‘a
more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until
the day-dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts.’
"If, therefore, a new ambassador wishes to teach something
new about heaven or hell, let him take heed, that he advance
not things which contradict the old truths, founded in such
a sure word. It will be easy for me to prove that your
* On this subject read the pertinent remarks which Swedenborg
addressed to Venator, the minister of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt,
in Document 248.
All these remarks arise from the wrong basis which Cuno attributes
to the doctrines taught by Swedenborg, see footnote on p. 486.
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