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Doc. 313.] 1007
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
tion ofthe Doctrine of the New Church, which is understood
by the New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse). Amsterdam,
1769, 4to.
Respecting this treatise the Author says in the preface, "After
having during the course of some years published several works ,
larger and smaller, concerning the New Jerusalem, by which is
understood a New Church about to be instituted by the Lord, and
after the Apocalypse had been revealed , I resolved to issue by the
press the doctrine of that Church in its fulness, and thus in its
entirety. As this, however, is the work of a few years, I deemed
it useful to publish meanwhile a sort of outline of it, in order that
a general idea of that Church and of its doctrine may first be ob
tained; for when the generals precede, all the particulars as they
exist in their whole breadth, are able to appear in light ; since they
enter into the generals, as homogeneous things into their receptacles.
The present summary, however, is not submitted for critical examina
tion, as its contents will be demonstrated in full in the promised
work; it is only issued as a preliminary notice."
The object of the present work is : 1. To give a general outline
of "The True Christian Religion ; or, The Universal Theology of
the New Church," which is done in no. 16 ; and 2. To show the
discordance between the doctrines of the present Church and those
of the New Church: this is done under twenty-five heads from
nos. 17 to 108. Afterwards follows a chapter on the dogma of the
imputation of the merit of Christ (nos. 109-113 ), which is succeeded
by two memorable relations which are taken from the "Apocalypse
Revealed;" and in the form of a "concluding appendix" (appendix
coronaria) is added the Creed of the New Heaven and the New
Church in a universal and in a particular form, which is again
followed by three memorable relations taken from the "Apocalypse
Revealed."
This "Brief Exposition" was no doubt written by the author in
Amsterdam, while he saw the treatise on "Conjugial Love" through
the press. On March 15, 1769, he wrote to Dr. Beyer respecting
it, as follows, "I had the pleasure of receiving yours of November 23,
1768. The reason I did not answer it sooner was, that I postponed
until a little work was published entitled, ’A Brief Exposition of
the Doctrine of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem
in the Book of Revelation,’ in which are fully shown the errors of
the hitherto received doctrine of justification by faith alone, and the
imputation of the righteousness of the merit of Christ. This treatise
was sent by me to all the clergy in Holland, and will come into
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