can be saved." True Christ. Rel. n. 182. "That Swedenborg publicly opposed a bishop and other dignitaries of the Old Church, in regard to their faith in three persons, and confuted them to their faces." True Christ. Rel. n. 16, 112.

Apoc. Rev. n. 716.

"That the faith of the Old Church originates in principles of adultery; for where there are three divine persons or three Lords in the church, it is either like a woman who plays the harlot, or like a woman that is married to one husband, who yet hireth herself out to two others; and whilst she spends the night in their embraces, calleth each of them by turns her husband." True Christ. Rel. n. 380.

"That to implant in children and young people the idea of three divine persons, to which is unavoidably annexed the idea of Gods, is to deprive them of all spiritual milk, and afterwards of all spiritual meat, and lastly of all spiritual rationality; the consequence whereof is spiritual death to all those who confirm themselves in such an opinion." True Christ. Rel. n. 23.

"That the Old Church hath shut up heaven against itself." Arc. Col. n. 9256.

"That the church is at this day transferred from the christians to the gentiles." Arc. Cœl. n. 9256.

"That the Old Church is rejected, and the New Church adopted." Arc. Cal. n. 4231, 4333, 4334, 4422, 4638.

"That the internals and externals of the Old Church shall perish: and that this is what is meant in the Word by heaven and earth passing away." Arc. Cal. n. 4231.

"That the Lord is departed from the Old Church, and come to the New." Arc. Cœl. n. 4535. "That men are exhorted to beware of the doc

trines of the Old Church." Arc. Col. n. 3900.

"That no credit is to be given to what the teachers of the Old Church say, either about truth or goodness." Arc. Cœl. n. 3900.

"That the Old Church is a DEAD CARCASE, or a CORPSE; and that reasonings in favour of the Old Church are what are signified in Matt. xxiv. 28, by the eagles being gathered together about the carcase." Arc, Cœl. n. 3900.

"That men must FLEE FROM, and SHUN the Old Church." Apoc. Rev. n. 707.

"That there can be no conjunction between heaven and the Old Church; and therefore there is an absolute necessity that a New Church be formed distinct from the Old, in order that the New Angelic Heaven may have a foundation to rest upon in this natural world." Apoc. Rev. n. 533.

"That the doctrines in the reformed or protestant churches, are represented in the spiritual world by a dragon." Apoc. Rev. n. 537.

"That the falses of the former church must first of all be removed, before the the truths of the New can be received and implanted; or in case they are received, they do not abide in the mind, but are extracted by the spirits of the dragon." Apoc. Rev. n. 547, 700.

"That the faith, which prevails at this day, contains nothing of the church; that it is not any thing; but only an idea or shadow of something; and therefore is DESERVEDLY to be REJECTED, yea it rejects itself as a thing that bears no relation to a church." Brief. Expos. n. 96.

"That unless the false doctrines and reasonings of the Old Church are detected and exposed, any person unacquainted therewith, although in other respects sufficiently intelligent, might easily be seduced." Apoc. Rev. n. 700.

"That the Old Church is spiritual Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified." Apoc. Rev. n. 502 to 504. True Christ. Rel. n. 634, 635.

"That the doctrines of the Old and New Church do not agree together, NO NOT IN ONE SINGLE POINT OR INSTANCE, however minute." Brief. Expos. n. 96, 103. True Christ. Rel. n. 648.

"That the faith of the Old Church, in consequence of excluding all light from reason, may be likened to an owl; but the faith of the New Church may be likened to a dove; wherefore their conjunction in one mind would be like the conjunction of an owl and a dove in one nest, where each would lay its eggs, and after sitting would hatch their young, and then the owl would tear in pieces the young of the dove, and give them to her own young for food, for the owl is a bird of prey.” Brief, Expos. n. 103. True Christ, Rel. n. 648.

"That the New Church will be established distinct from the Old, the latter remaining in its external worship, just as the Jews do in theirs; although there is nothing of charity and faith, that is, of the church among them." Arc. Cœl, n. 1850.

SUNDRY EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF BARON SWEDENBORG.

MEMORABLE RELATION, NO. 281.”

"Forasmuch as it hath been granted me by the Lord, to be at one and the same time in the spiritual world and in the natural world, and thereby to converse with angels as with men, and thus to become acquainted with the states of those, who, after death, flock together into that hereto

fore unknown world, (for I have conversed with all my relations and friends, and likewise with kings and princes, and men of learning, after their departure out of this life, and this now for twentyseven years without interruption) therefore I am able to describe the states of men after death, from lively experience, both in relation to such as have lived good lives, and such as have lived evil; at present, however, I shall only mention some circumstances relative to the state of those who have confirmed themselves from the Word in falses of doctrine, particularly of those who have been induced to do so, for the sake of defending the doctrine of justification by faith alone: the successive states, through which they pass, are as follows; I. As soon as they are deceased, and revive as to the spirit, which happens generally on the third day after the heart hath ceased to beat, they appear to themselves in a similar body to that which they before lived in, insomuch that they do not know but that they are still living in the former world, yet it is not a material body, but a substantial one, which to their senses appeareth like a material one, though it is not so. II. After some days, they see that they are in a world, where there are various societies instituted, which world is called THE WORLD OF SPIRITS, and is in the