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Doc. 259.] 521
HARTLEY’S LETTER TO CLOWES.
of this kind, and are a rich treasure of heavenly secrets. In
the same work we are given to see how the Spirit of God
shadowed forth, and delineated the great mysteries of Gospel
redemption, through regeneration, before and under the Law,
and so forming them into one consistent plan of the Divine
Wisdom and Goodness for the recovery of poor lost man, by
the great Jehovah’s assuming our human nature in the person
of Jesus Christ.
"But our enlightened author proceeds still further in the
following work (the True Christian Religion’), and goes on
to comfort us, under the present sad degeneracy of the Christian
church, with a prospect of the New Jerusalem from above,
whereby Jesus Christ will bless the earth, under the administra
tion of the spirit of peace and love, and by which, as he
proves from Scripture, is to be understood the Second Coming
of our Lord; not for the destruction of the earth and visible
heavens, but for the renovation of the Gospel spirit in the
church, now so sadly corrupted and fallen, as to render such
a new dispensation necessary to the existence of a True Christian
Church on earth.”
38. In conclusion Mr. Hartley addresses the following letter
privately to the translator of the "True Christian Religion :"
"Dear Sir,
"I have here given my most serious thoughts
on the writings and character of the great Swedenborg, and
if you approve of this performance, so far as to think it may
be prefixed to your translation, with any degree of usefulness,
I freely offer it to your service. I thank you, Sir, for the
favourable opinion of me, expressed in your last letter, and
must own that I esteem it a comfort to have been instrumental
in some degree in promoting the knowledge of our author’s
writings, and wish you more successful in your able endeavours
to forward the same. It is matter of great satisfaction to
find that the small part of his works which has already been
translated into English, has met with more success than might
be expected in so short a time ; and by the accounts received
of the favourable reception of them in foreign countries, we
have good reason to hope, that this highly gifted ministry
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