C 8468.46.15

HARVARD COLLEGE

NOV 28 1919

LIBRARY

Soliver fund

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

DR. WILLIAM TURNER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

THURSTON AND TORRY, PRINTERS.

Claims of Swedenborg - Authentic Testimonies to his truth

and Soundness of Mind- More certain proofs of which

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than of any existing with regard to the writers of the

Bible Of the Madness of Swedenborg - Account of

Mathesius-Denial of Brockmer-Proof of Mathesius'

insanity-Wesley imposed upon - His Alarm.

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CHAPTER II.

Some evidences of Swedenborg's Supernatural Knowledge-

Supernatural Occurrence connected with John Wesley —

Three Remarkable Narratives-Their authenticity - The

one relative to the Queen- Madame de Marteville - The

Fire at Stockholm - Of the Possible and Impossible - Some

Names of Witnesses in Swedenborg's Favor

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CHAPTER III.

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The Value of Truth-What constitutes a True Church - The

Scripture Criterion - The Claims of each Christian Sect-

Superiority of True Doctrines-Way to discover the True

Church-Why there are so many Christian Sects - Ne-

cessity of New Light-The Jews' Expectation of the First

Advent Cause of their Disbelief- Equal Blindness of

Christians with regard to the Second Advent - Who

are called the Old Church, and who are called the New

Church

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CHAPTER IV.

Old Church Idea of the Spiritual Sense of the Bible - What

every Humble Christian will confess - New Church Belief

of the Spiritual Sense-Proofs of its Truth - Of the

Second Advent-Proofs that it cannot be as literally

described-Destruction of the World - Account of the

versions of the Bible-Luther- True Meaning of the

Second Advent-Remarkable similarity of language in

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the Predictions of the End of the Jewish and of the End of

the First Christian Churches - Of the Internal or Spiritual

Sense of Scripture - Declaration of its Existence by the

Lord and the Apostle Paul - Quotation from Swedenborg

concerning Peter

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CHAPTER V.

Old Church Doctrine of the Last Judgment - What does not

Opinion of the Corner Stone of Christianity Proof that

the Dead have not to wait for a General Day of Resurrection

- Inconsistency of the Old Church with regard to the Last

Judgment and Resurrection of the Material Body - What

Paul says of the Resurrection of the Natural Body - The

New Church agreeing with Paul - The Consequence-

The Last Judgment Relative to each one- Particulars in

regard to General Judgments -- Reasons why the Revela-

tions for the New Church were not made sooner

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Reference for Proofs of the Fallacy of the Episcopal Church

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- Impeachment of the Wisdom of God - His Repenting -

Punishment Explained - Fate of Infants - God a Glorious

Divine Man The Virgin Mary-Explanatory Quotation

of the Divine Humanity - Tri-personality-Texts of Scrip-

ture opposed to the Unitarians

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CHAPTER VII.

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The Vicarious Atonement - The New Church Doctrine of the

Atonement according to Scripture- Why the Vicarious

Atonement is Unscriptural - Explanation of Mediator-

Of Sacrifice for Sin - Genuine Sacrifice-Correspondence

of the Crucifixion Of the Lord's Supper - Different

Views of the Old and New Church in the Ordinance - The

Falsehood Implied by Communicants not Receiving the

Creed of the Church in which they Commune - Explana-

tion of the Lord's Prayer in the Old Church - And in the

New - Internal and External Man

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CHAPTER VIII.

The Old Church and New Church Concerning Faith, Charity

and Salvation Of the First Chapter of Genesis — Old

Church Inconsistency with regard to Swedenborg - Internal

Sense of the Word - Old Church and New Church Views of

the Origin of Evil — Of Children, Remains, Good and Evil

Spirits Regeneration - World of Spirits, Heaven, Hell

— Of Conversion and Regeneration, the Difference, Death

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