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Doc. 314.] 1049
SWEDENBORG AND ŒTINGER.
"[IV. ] This consideration relieves me from the necessity
I should otherwise be under, of saying something respecting
the science of correspondences, as being highly necessary for
the interpretation of the Divine prophecies ; nor will it cost
any man much labour, to see into the meaning of the Word,
divested of its material clothing ; for example, how the words,
horse, city, Jerusalem, and others, do and can contain some
thing internal, as oil within the fruit; I say it will not cost
any man much labour, who will not esteem it unworthy of
him to give a thorough reading to those demonstrations, con
tained in the small volume on The White Horse, nos. 1-5 , and
the Apocalypse Revealed, from beginning to end, but especially
no. 907.
"[V.] Respecting the Last Judgment, and Swedenborg’s
explanation of the New Heaven and the New Earth, his work
on these subjects, published in 1757, with its continuation in
1763, presents to us a sound knowledge concerning them. As
to the doctrine of the resurrection, he everywhere sets at rest
the keen understanding upon that subject, and that by argu
ments which he derives from the nature of both worlds : an
intellect, which rises above the world and the senses, sees very
easily that his sentiments are by no means contrary to the
Scripture, but, on the contrary, completely coincide with it.
"[VI.] But more important seems to be the charge, which
you do not hesitate to bring against Swedenborg, namely, that
he pays no regard to the analogy of faith, and in his doctrine
respecting the most Holy Trinity, does not hold with the
apostles, but with Schwenkfeld. This, I must allow, would be
a very great and a very important error, which would eclipse
every other excellence, if it were not visible that this charge
cannot be attached to Swedenborg, and that the very method
in which he unfolds this point is sufficient of itself to clear
him from it. It may be admitted that the Schwenkfeldian
method, as being more easy to amend, may have the pre
eminence over others, but at the same time I believe it will
require no great penetration to discover that Schwenkfeld and
Swedenborg do not entertain the same principles. I wish,
however, you would take the trouble to learn from my small
treatise respecting the plan of John’s writings, which I have
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