Bleffed is the Man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor flood in the way of finners, nor fat in the feat of the fcornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law will he exercife himself day and night. Pfalmi. 1, 2. THIS has been the blessed state of every wife and pious chriftian in all ages of the church: Being taught from his youth to revere the facred writings, to confider them as divine revelations from heaven, and as fuch containing "the will and the wifdom 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;---impreffed with thefe fentiments, his ruling delight was in the law of the Lord, and it was to to him a fource of inftruction and comfort ; in in every flate, 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 its hidden myfteries, by unfolding it's various fenfes; 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 fcripture, when feparated from the genuine truths and goodneffes now difcovered in it's internal fenfe. "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 feparate himfelf 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 fee the wonderous things heretofore hidden in the external fenfe of the divine law. By |