SWEDENBORGIANS. 
in redemption, which is as much the woik 
of a divine and omnipotent being, as crea- 
tion itself. They maintain, however, that 
the imputation, which really takes place, is 
an imputation of good and evil ; and tliat 
this is according to a man’s life. 
6. That the doctrine of predestination 
and justification by faith alone, is a mere 
human invention, and not to he found in 
the word of God. 
7. That the two sacraments of baptism 
and the holy supper are essential institu- 
tions in the New Church, the genuine and 
rational uses of which are now discovered, 
together with the spiritual sense of the holy 
word. 
8. That the sacred scripture contains a 
threefold sense, namely, celestial, spiritual, 
and natural, which are united by corres- 
pondences ; and that in each sense it is di- 
vine truth, accommodated, respectively to 
the angels of the three heavens, and also to 
men on earth. 
9. That the books of the word, (or the 
scriptures), are those which have the inter- 
.nal sense, and are the five books of Moses, 
the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, 
the Psalms, and all the Prophets : also, the 
four Evangelists, and the Revelation ; and 
that the other books, viz. the books of 
Ruth, the Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Es- 
ther, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of 
Solomon, in the Old Testament; and the 
Acts, together with all the Epistles in tire 
New, not having the internal sense, are not 
the word, or divine revelation. 
10. That in the spiritual world there is a 
sun distinct from that of the natural world, 
the essence of which is pure love from Je- 
hovah God, who is in the midst thereof; 
that the heat also proceeding from that sun, 
is, in its essence, love ; and the light thence 
proceeding is, in its essence, wisdom ; and 
by the instrumentality of that sun, all things 
were created, and continue to subsist, both 
in the spiritual and in the natural world. 
11. They maintain, that there is not in 
the universal heaven, a single angel that 
was created so at the first, nor a single de- 
vil in all hell that had been created an angel 
of light, and was afterwards cast out of hea- 
ven ; but that all both in heaven and hell 
are of the human race ; in heaven such as 
had lived in the world in heavenly love and 
' faith, and in hell such as lived in hellish 
love and faith. 
12 . That the material body never rises 
again ; but that man, immediately after his 
departure from this life, rises again as to his 
spiritual or substantial body, (which was 
inclosed in his material body, and formed 
from his predominant love, whether it be- 
good or evil), wherein he continues to live 
as a man, in a perfect human form, in all 
■respects as before, save only the gross ma- 
terial body, which he puts off by death, 
and which is of no further use. 
13. That the state and condition of man 
after death is according to his past life in 
this world ; and the predominant love, 
which he takes with him into the spiritual 
world, continues with him for ever, and 
can never be changed to all eternity ; but 
if evil, he abides in hell to ail eternity. 
14. That true conjugal love, which- can 
only subsist between one husband and one 
wife, is a primary characteristic of the new 
church, being grounded in the marriage 
of goodness and trtitli, and corresponding 
with the marriage of the Lord and his 
church ; and therefore it is more celestial, 
spiritual, holy, pure, and clean, than any 
other love in angels or men. 
1.5. That the science of correspondences, 
(which has been lost for some thousands of 
years, btit is now revived in the Theological 
Vkorks of the Honourable Emanuel Swe- 
denborg), is the only key, to the spiritual, 
or internal sense of the holy word, every 
page of which is written by correspon- 
dences, that is, by such things in the natural 
world as correspond with and signify things 
in the spiritual world. 
16. That all those passages in the scrip- 
tures generally supposed to signify the de- 
struction of the world by fire, &c. com- 
monly called the last judgment, must be 
understood according to the above science, 
which teaches, that by the end of the world 
is not meant the destruction of it, but the 
destruction or end of the present Chris- 
tian church, both among Roman Catholics 
and Protestants of every description, and 
that this last judgment took place in the 
spiritual world in the year 1757. 
17. That the second advent of the Lord, 
which is a coming, not in person, but in the 
spiritual or internal sense of his holy word,, 
has already commenced ; that it is effected 
by means of his servant Emanuel Sweden- 
borg, before whom he hath manifested 
liimself in person, and whom he hath filled 
with his spirit, to teach the doctrines of the 
new church by the word from him ; and 
that this is what is meant in the Revelation 
by the new heaven and new earth, and the 
new Jerusalem thence descending. 
