430 HISTORY OF 



them, he brought with him, from Europe, a number of 

 New Ciuu'ch works, for gratuitous distribution, and f )r 

 sale. Roichenbach, on examining the doctrines, embra- 

 ced and avowed thoni openly, lie atterwards pubhshed 

 several works on the doctrines of tlie New Church. One 

 cntitk^d ,ig-af/)o?), published in EngUsh and German, 

 which was tavorably received. 



From the eliorts of Von Ikieknv. who afterwards re- 



thc same acts, which were his temptations, the last of which 

 was the passion of the cro-s, he united, in his Humanity, Divine 

 Truth to Divine Good, or Divine Wisdom to Divine Love, and 

 so returned into his Divinity in which he was from eternity, 

 together with, and in, his Gkiritied humanity ; whence he for- 

 ever keeps the internal powers in subjection to himseh: And 

 that all who believe in him, with the understanding, from tlie 

 heart, and live accordingly, will be saved. 



III. That the Sacred Scripture, or Word of God, is Divine 

 Truth Dsell": containing a Spiritual Sense heretofore un- 

 known, whence it is divinely inspired and holy in every syl- 

 lable ;, as well as a Literal Sense, which is the basis of its 

 Spiritual Sense, and in which Divine Truth is in its fulness, its 

 sanctity, and its power: thus that it is accommodated to the 

 apprehension both of angels and men: That tlie spiritual and 

 natural senses ar.i united, by correspondences, like soul and 

 body, every natural expression and image answering to, and 

 including, a spiritual and divine idea: And thus that the 

 Word is the medium of communication with heaven, and of 

 conjunction with the Lord. 



IV. That the government of the Lord's Divine Love and 

 Wisdom is the Divine Providence; which is universal, exer- 

 cised according to certain fixed laws of Order, and extending 

 to the minutest particulars of the life of all men, both of the 

 good and of the evil: That in all its operations it has respect 

 to what is infinite and eternal, and makes no account of things 

 transitory but as they are subservient to eternal ends; thus, that 

 it mainly consists, with man, in the connection of things tem- 

 poral with things eternal; for that the continual aim of the 

 Lord, by his Divine Providence, is to join man to himself and 



