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THE

DOCTRINE

OF THE

NEW JERUSALEM

CONCERNING THE

SACRED SCRIPTURE.

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed and Sold by R. HINDMARSH,

PRINTER

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE

PRINCE OF WALES,

No. 32, Clerkenwell-Clofe :

M.DCC.XCI.

[Price Two SHILLINGS.]

BODLEIAT

17.5-1913

PARY

Blefjed is the Man that hath not walked in the Counfel of the ungodly, nor food in the Way of Sinners, nor fat in the Seat of the fcornful.

But his Delight is in the Law of the Lord; and in bis Law will he exercife himfelf Day and Night. Pfalm i. 1, 2.

HIS has been the bleffed State of

THIS

every wife and pious Chriftian in all Ages of the Church: Being taught from his Youth to revere the Sacred Writings, to confider them as. Divine Revelations from Heaven, and as fuch containing "the Will and the Wisdom "of God," pointing out to Man the only Object of Divine Worship, and inftructing him how to hallow the Name of his heavenly Father, and be thereby enabled to do his Will on Earth, as it is done in Heaven; or in other Words, teaching him how to climb the Heights of Virtue, by practifing the heavenly Precepts of Wisdom and Love ;—imA 2 preffed

preffed with thefe Sentiments, his ruling Delight was in the Law of the Lord, and it was to him a Source of Instruction and Comfort in every State, whether of Light or Darkness, Profperity or Adverfity.

To Minds thus prepared it must afford the highest Pleasure to be informed, that it has pleafed God to put into their Hands at this Time, the Means of attaining a more perfect Knowledge of his Holy Word; that he has taken off the Veil from it's hidden Mysteries, by unfolding it's various Senses; and that Truth being thus opened to his View, he is thereby instructed how he may avoid the Danger of Error, and of those false Doctrines which are inferred from the Letter of Scripture, when separated from the genuine Truths and Goodneffes now discovered in it's internal Senfe.

Open thou mine Eyes" fays the Pfalmift, "that I may fee the wonderous Things of thy Law." The Prayer of the Pfalmift is now accomplished, and every Reader, who is willing to separate

himself from all that is Evil and Falfe, who fteadily walks in holy Obedience to the Divine Precepts, and who by Repentance and Prayer renders himself meet for Divine Illumination, may, by Means of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, be enabled to see the wonderous Things heretofore hidden in the external Senfe of the Divine Law.

By the following Treatife of our illuminated Author, he will be taught to perceive clearly where the Holinefs and Divinity of the Scriptures refide; and that the Word of God, really proceeding from Him, muft partake of his Holy Effence, and confequently be Divine in all and every Part thereof. From this he may also learn the Reality, the Beauty, and Importance of the internal or Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures: He will find that they are the Laws of God, by which Heaven and the Church on Earth are regulated; that in a higher Senfe they relate to thofe States of Divine Order, by which the Humanity affumed by Jehovah was glorified and made One A 3 with

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