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Doc. 313.] 1019
CHRONOLOGICAL
ACCOUNT.
of the church, and that, by the Nicene and Athanasian trinity, the
whole Christian church has been perverted. He is a warm advocate
for charity and good works, he abhors the notion that faith alone
is requisite to salvation, and speaks of the doctrine of predestination
as detestable.
"His account of the decalogue, of which he gives what he calls
the natural, spiritual, and celestial meaning, is very imperfect, as the
second commandment is omitted, and the tenth divided into two, to
form the ninth and tenth : This we have heard has been done in
the Church of Rome, but we apprehend has not been the practice
in Protestant churches.*
"Concerning the spiritual world which Baron Swedenborg has so
frequently visited, he tells us that there are in it lands, plains and
valleys, mountains and hills, as in our earth; that there are also
fountains and rivers, gardens, groves and woods, houses, palaces and
cities, writings, books, offices and employments, gold, silver, precious
stones, &c., as there are also in ours ; but that all these things are
created in an instant according to the ideas and affections which
arise among the angels and spirits who inhabit those regions. In
the different visits this writer has paid to them, he has conversed,
we are told, with many persons of every rank and of all nations
and countries. In the close of the present work, he gives a short
account of the situation allotted to the inhabitants of different
countries or religious professions, and to some of the more remarkable
individuals among them." The Reviewer extracts here what the
Author says respecting the English in the other world, and also
respecting Calvin and Mahomet; and therewith concludes his review.
The first English edition of this work, translated by the Rev.
John Clowes, appeared in 1781 in 2 Volumes, quarto. It contained an
introductory letter by the Rev. Thomas Hartley, extracts of which
are contained in Document 259, C, pp. 511 to 522. The second
edition was published in 1786 by Mr. R. Hindmarsh, likewise in 4to.
The first German edition appeared in 1784 at Altenburg in
3 volumes; and a second and better edition in two large 8vo volumes
at Basel in 1795. The latter contained also extracts from the
Arcana Cœlestia, the "Apocalypse Revealed," "Divine Providence,"
and "Conjugial Love."
The first Swedish edition was published at Copenhagen in 1795 ;
it was translated by pastor Odhner of Westergothland. It has been
* It is an error to say that the second was omitted. It is included as
part of the first, as has been the practice in all Protestant churches, except
in England.
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