DOCTRINE

OF THE

NEW JERUSALEM

CONCERNING THE

SACRED SCRIPTURE.

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Bleffed is the Man that hath not walked in the Counsel of the ungodly, nor ftood 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 his Law will be exercife himself Day and Night, Pfalm i. 1, 2.

THIS HIS has been the bleffed State of 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 Wildom and Love ;impreffed with thefe Sentiments, his ruling Delight was in the Law of the Lord, and it was to him a Source of Inftruction and Comfort in every State, whether of Light or Darkness, Profperity or Adversity.

To Minds thus prepared it muft afford the highest Pleafure 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 Myfteries, by unfolding it's various Senses; and that Truth being thus opened to his View, he is thereby inftructed how he may avoid the Danger of Error, and of thofe falfe 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 False, who fteadily walks in holy Obedience to the Divine Precepts, and who by Repentance and Prayer renders himfelf meet for Divine Illumination, may, by Means of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, be enabled to fee the wonderous

wonderous Things heretofore hidden in the external Senfo of the Divine Law.

By the following Treatife of our illuminated Author. he will be taught to perceive clearly where the Holiness and Divinity of the Scriptures refide; and that the Word of God, really proceeding from Him, must partake of his Holy Effence, and confequently be Divine in all and every Part thereof. From this he may alfo learn the Reality, the Beauty, and Importance of the internal or Spiritual Senfe 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 with the Father or Divine Effe, as a Means whereby the Infirmities and Corruption of Human Nature might be nearer approached to, and wrought upon by the Divine; in a lower Senfe, it alfo fhews that thofe States are the Laws of Divine Order, by which the Regeneration or Salvation of Man is effected. Thofe Paffages of Holy Writ, which before appeared nugatory, trifling, or inconfiftent, will now be feen to be of the highest Importance; the apparent Inconfiftencies of the Letter vanifh, and the Reader finds that every Part inculcates Leffons of the greatest practical Utility, at the fame Time that they difplay amazing Inftances of infinite Love and Wisdom. Hence his Reverence for, and Affection to the Sacred Writings is highly increased, and he is hereby taught how to make the most profitable and noble Ufe of them, by permitting the exalted Truths thereof to be infeminated in his Mind, the Light of which will enable him to discover the Evils of his Life, and the Errors thence derived; and if he flies from them as Sins against God, he will become receptive of Divine Love in his Affections, and Divine Wisdom in his Intellect, and by their Conjunction in him by the Lord, be made meet for the Communion of Angels and Archangels, and the Spirits of juft Men made perfect, in thofe Mansions prepared for them from the Foundation of the World, not made with Hands, eternal in the Heavens. Amen.