Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: With Some Account of His Writings, Together with a Brief Notice of the Rise and Progress of the New Church

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Allen and Goddard, 1831 - 188 Seiten
 

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Seite 144 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Seite 86 - Gottenburg, who was despatched during the time of the fire . In the letters brought by him, the fire was described precisely in the manner stated by Swedenborg. On...
Seite 153 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Seite 34 - Since the Lord cannot manifest Himself in person, as has been shown just above, and yet He has foretold that He would come and establish a New Church, which is the New Jerusalem...
Seite 9 - God, on salvation, and on the spiritual affections of man. I often revealed things in my discourse which filled my parents with astonishment, and made them declare at times, that certainly the angels spoke through my mouth. From my sixth to my twelfth year, it was my greatest delight to converse with the clergy concerning faith ; to whom I often observed, that charity or love is the life of faith...
Seite 19 - This much, however, I can truly say ; that the air of mysticism which is generally thought to pervade Baron Swedenborg's ethical and theological writings, has prevented philosophers from paying that attention to his physical productions, of which I now see that they are worthy. Many of the experiments and observations on magnetism, presented in this work, are believed to be of much more modern date, and are unjustly ascribed to much more recent writers...
Seite 58 - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Seite 153 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Seite 103 - I have written,' answered Swedenborg with a degree of warmth, * nothing but the truth, as you will have it more and more confirmed hereafter all the days of your life, provided you always keep close to the Lord, and faithfully serve him alone, in shunning evils of all kinds as sins against him, and diligently searching his Word, which from beginning to end bears incontestable testimony to the truth of the doctrines I have delivered to the world.'* Mr.
Seite 72 - I ought to add, (M. Thiebault continues,) that though the queen laid great stress on the truth of her recital, she professed herself, at the same time, incredulous to Swedenborg's supposed conferences with the dead.

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