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1034 APPENDIX. [Doc. 314.
the author is able to refute all the objections which may be
formulated from the symbolic writings?
"These questions and answers I shall submit to the Privy
Council, and if you can in any way assist me in it, I beg
you to be kind enough to do so.
"I am firmly resolved to write a defence of your writings.
The only objection which I entertain to them, is that in vio
lation of your own principles regarding the literal sense, you
deny that Paul’s Epistles have an internal sense ; and that
you explain the city of God as meaning the Church, abandon
ing thereby the literal sense, and putting yourself into con
tradiction with the word of Christ, ’Behold, I make all
things new."
"I shall write in the manner of Job; for this is our pattern
in the discussion of difficult questions. First, I shall bring
forward, in favour and in opposition, the propositions and
counter propositions of Eliphas, answering the same ; after
wards those of Bildad, with their answers ; then those of
Zophar with their answers ; and, finally, I shall introduce an
impartial Elihu, who is to decide the whole.
"Some of your own observations would be most useful
for this work. Please, therefore, to furnish me with some
facts not yet published, by which I may defend your books.
Write to me especially, how your experience commenced, and
how from having been a philosopher, you have become a
seer and prophet. Let me know whether heaven has not
manifested something very striking in confirmation of what
has hitherto remained doubtful to me ; whether you do not feel
inclined to converse with our former countryman Bengel,183 late
councillor of the consistory, and one of the foremost expounders
of the literal sense. One thing I must beg of you that you
will see my friend Fricker,806 late assistant minister of the
church in Dettingen, who has also embraced your principles ;
that you will converse with him, and report to me the
substance of your conversation. This shall be to me in the
place of a sign which you have promised ; perhaps, such a
sign will yet be granted.
"The Duchess of Brunswick, sister of your Queen, has
written a detailed letter to the Margrave of Anspach, in
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