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DOCUMENT 259.
TESTIMONY OF THE REV. THOMAS HARTLEY,
M. A.¹
A.
From the Preface to his English Translation of the work “On
the Intercourse between the Soul and the Body.""*
1. "It is said in the prophet Amos, ’Surely the Lord will
do nothing, but He revealeth His secrets unto His servants
the prophets.’ He has done this in olden times, and is He
a variable God, that He will not do the same in the last
times ? Is He less communicative, or His servants now less
dear to Him ? This cannot with truth be said. The deluge,
the destruction of Sodom, the liberation of the Hebrews from
Egyptian bondage, the revolutions in the kingdom of Israel,
their victories, captivities, and dispersion ; the great Restorer
of the true Israel, the states of the Christian church, its
apostacy, and its restoration in the New Jerusalem Church,
with numberless other particulars, have all been revealed by
the Lord to certain of His chosen ones before these great events
came to pass ; and can we suppose that the last of these,
which is the most concerning of all, will want its previous
messenger to prepare the church for its approach? It has
long been a time of trouble and of treading down, and shall
there not be a time of refreshing and raising up, when the
children of Zion shall be made joyful with the glad tidings
of The Coming of their King ? Shall the profane insults,
* A Theosophical Lucubration on the Nature of Influx, as it respects
the Communication and Operations of Soul and Body. By the Honourable
and Learned Em. Swedenborg. Now first translated from the original
Latin. London, 1770.
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