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DOCUMENT 301.
SWEDENBORG’S SKETCH OF AN ECCLESIAS
TICAL HISTORY OF THE NEW CHURCH.*
1. A new Ecclesiastical History must be written, because
now is the Lord’s Advent predicted in Matthew xxiv.
2. The church was different before the Council of Nice, as
long as the Apostles’ Creed was in force.
It became changed after the Council of Nice, and still more
after the Athanasian Creed was composed.
The cardinal point of doctrine respecting the Triune God
and the Lord was subverted in the church, especially by the
dogma of three [Divine] persons from eternity.
3. The books are to be enumerated which were written,
from the beginning to the present day, by the Lord through
me (a Domino per me).
4. The writing there is such, that it shines brightly before
those who believe in the Lord and in the new revelation ; but
it appears dark and of no consequence to those who deny
them, and who are not in favour of them on account of various
external reasons.
Experimental proofs that their style of writing is such:
1. From the censors of books of Holland who were called
together in the world of spirits ; one of whom upon reading
these books said, that they were preferable to all other books,
except the Word ; and another said that he saw nothing in
them except vain, novel, and fantastical things, and that there
* This sketch is contained in Codex 47 of the Swedenborg MSS., which
are preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
The title of the volume, which is almost entirely blank, is : "Register öfver
Concordia Boken."
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