THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD: WITH ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY THE LATE REV. T. HARTLEY, A.M.. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. THE NINTH EDITION. LONDON: WILLIAM NEWBERY, 6, KING STREET, HOLBORN. 1846. This work is printed at the expense of, and published for, "THE SOCIETY FOR PRINTING AND PUBLISHING THE WRITINGS OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, INSTITUTED IN LONDON IN THE YEAR 1810." PRINTED BY WALTON AND MITCHELL, WARDOUR STREET, OXFORD STREET. ..... THE WHOLE SACRED SCRIPTURE TREATS OF THE LORD, AND THE ........ ........ I. By the Law, in a strict sense, are meant the Ten Com- ibid. II. By the Law, in a more extensive sense, are meant all ..... THE LORD, BY THE PASSION OF THE CROSS, DID NOT TAKE AWAY ...... THE IMPUTATION OF THE LORD'S MERIT PROPERLY MEANS NOTHING I. The Lord is called the Son of Man when the Passion is II. The Lord is called the Son of Man when Judgment is III. The Lord is called the Son of Man where his coming IV. The Lord is called the Son of Man where Redemption, Salvation, Reformation, and Regeneration are treated of. 27 ibid. Because the Son of Man signifies the Lord as to the Word, the same title was also given to the Prophets.. 28 THE LORD MADE HIS HUMAN DIVINE FROM THE DIVINE WHICH WAS IN HIM, AND THUS BECAME ONE WITH THE FATHER ..... I. The Lord from Eternity is Jehovah.... 336 29 37 32 ibid. III. The Lord made his Human Divine from the Divine IV. The Lord made his Human Divine by Temptations ad- 39 V. The full Union of the Divine and Human in the Lord, 34 VI. The Lord put off, by successive steps, the Human from the Mother, and put on a Human from the Divine in Him- self, which is the Divine-Human and the Son of God..... 35 VII. Thus God became Man, as in first Principles so also THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE DIVINE PROCEEDING FROM THE LORD, AND I. By the term "Spirit" is meant the Life of Man II. Since the Life of Man varies according to his State, there- fore by the term "Spirit" is also signified the peculiar III. By the term "Spirit" is also signified the Life of the Re- ....... By the Spirit is also signified Spiritual Life commu- nicated to those who are in humiliation IV. Where the term "Spirit" is mentioned in reference to the Lord, it signifies his Divine Life, consequently the Lord V. By the term "Spirit," when mentioned in reference to the VI. Jehovah himself, that is, the Lord, spake the Word by the THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED AGREES WITH THE TRUTH, PROVIDED THE TRINITY OF PERSONS OF WHICH IT SPEAKS, BE UNDER- THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD. THE WHOLE SACRED SCRIPTURE TREATS OF THE LORD, AND THE LORD IS THE WORD. ; 1. WE read in John, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkness; but the darkness comprehended it not." Moreover, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (chap. i. 1-5, 14). The same Evangelist further adds, "Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil" (chap. iii. 19). And in another place, "While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness" (chap. xii. 36, 46). From these passages it is evident, that the Lord is God from eternity, and that this God is himself the Lord who was born in the world : for it is said, that the Word was with God, and God was the Word: as, also, that without him was not any thing made that was made and again, that the Word was made flesh, and they beheld him. Why the Lord is called THE WORD, is but little understood in the church: he is however called the Word, because THE WORD signifies Divine Truth, or Divine Wisdom; and the Lord is Divine Truth itself, or Divine Wisdom itself; for which reason he is likewise called the Light, which also is said to have come into the world. Divine Wisdom and Divine Love, constitute a one, and were from eternity a one in |