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1044 [Doc. 314.
APPENDIX.
"3. You think that he invests most passages in the Sacred
Scriptures with a veil of doubt.
"4. That he rests more upon the science of correspondences
than upon the clearest expressions of the Sacred Word.
"5. That he invents things repugnant to the declaration
of Scripture, respecting the White Horse and the White Horses,
the Resurrection from the Dead, the Last Judgment, the New
Heaven and the New Earth, and the Holy City, the New
Jerusalem.
"6. That he offends mightily against the analogy of faith,
and teaches the doctrine of the Trinity, not as the apostles
have done, but according to the Schwenkfeldian method.
"7. That he diminishes the authority of Paul, by not
ascribing to his writings the title of the Word of God.
"8. That he is not introduced to celebrity by signs and
wonders, at least he does not bring them forth as open
credentials, and that the Divine seal is wanting.
"9. That the prophecy of the New Jerusalem, which within
two years was to have been fulfilled, is refuted by its non
accomplishment.
"10. That the interpretation of the Apocalypse seems to
have been introduced in favour of the newly invented church.
"The above are nearly all the general points of objection,
which I find advanced against Swedenborg in your writings.
After I have laid open to you in truth and simplicity what
I have to oppose to each of these objections, you will judge
yourself, whether they justly or unjustly deprive him of his
credit.
"[I.] Having propounded to Swedenborg several questions, I
received from him, in the year 1767, amongst others this answer:
’I was forbidden,’ he says, ’to read writers on dogmatic
and systematic theology, before heaven was opened to me ,
because unfounded opinions and inventions might thereby have
easily insinuated themselves, which afterwards could only have
been removed with difficulty ; wherefore, when heaven was
opened to me, I had first to learn the Hebrew language, as
well as the correspondences according to which the whole
Bible is composed, which led me to read the Word of God
.
over many times ; and as God’s Word is the source whence
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