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of redeeming the world, he took upon himfelf a proper 
human or material body, but not a human foul ; that this 
redemption confifts in bringing the hells, or evil fpirits, 
into fubjedtion, and the heavens into order and regulation, 
and thereby preparing the way for a new fpiritual church ; 
that without fuch redemption no man could be faved, nor 
could the angels retain their Ifate of integrity; that their 
redemption was effected by means of trials, temptations, 
or conflicts with evil fpirits ; and that the lalt of them, 
by which Chrift glorified his humanity, perfefting the 
union of his divine with his human nature, was the paf- 
fion of the crofs. Though they maintain that there is 
but one God, and one divine perfon, they hold that in 
this perfon there is a real Trinity ; confiding of the divi¬ 
nity, the humanity, and the operation of them both, in 
the Lord Jefus ; a Trinity which did not exift from all 
eternity, but commenced at the incarnation. They be¬ 
lieve that there are angels attending upon men, refiding, 
as Swedenborg fays, in their affections ; that temptation 
confifts in a druggie between good and.bad angels within 
men ; and that by this means God aflifts men in thefe 
temptations, fince of themfelves they could do nothing. 
Indeed Swedenborg maintains, that there is an univerfal 
influx from God into the fouls of men, infpiring them 
efpecially with the belief of the divine unity. This ef¬ 
flux of divine light on the fpiritual world he compares to 
the efflux of the light from the fun in the natural world. 
Baron Swedenborg farther maintains, that the facred 
Scripture contains three diftinCt fenfts, the celeftial, the 
fpiritual, and the natural, which are united by corref- 
pondencies ; and that in each fenfe it is divine truth, ac¬ 
commodated relpeCtively to the angels of the three hea¬ 
vens, and alfo to men on earth. This fcicnce of corref- 
pondencies (it is faid) had been loft for fume thoulands of 
years, viz. ever fince the time of Job ; out is now revived 
lay Emanuel Swedenborg, who u!ts it as a key to the fpi¬ 
ritual or internal fenfe of the facred Scripture, every page 
of which, he fays, is written by correlpondencies, that is, 
by fuch things in the natural world as correfpond unto, 
and fignity, things in the fpiritual world. — He denies the 
doCtrine of atonement, or vicarious Sacrifice, together 
with the declines of predeftination, unconditional elec¬ 
tion, juftifieation by faith alone, the reiurreCHon of the 
material body, &c. and, in oppofition thereto, maintains, 
that man is pcffefftd of tree will in fpiritual things ; that 
falvation is not attainable without repentance, that is, 
abflaining from evils, becaule they are fins againft God, 
and living a life of charity and faith, according to the 
commandments ; that man, immediately on his deceafe, rifes 
again in a fpiritual body, which was encloied in his 
material body, and that in tiiis fpiritual body he lives 
as a man to eternity, either in heav n or hell, according 
to the quality of his part life. It is farther maintained by 
Swedenborg and his idiowers, that all thofe paffages in 
the facred Scripture, generally f'uppofed to figmfy thede- 
ftruftion of the world by fire, &c. commonly called the 
laft judgment, rnuft be underltood according to the above- 
mentioned fcicnce of correfpondencies ; which teaches, that 
by the end of the world, or confummation of tiie age, is 
not fignified the deftruCtion of the world, but the de- 
ltruCtion or end of the prefent Chriftian church, both 
among Roman Catholics and Proteltants of every deferip- 
tion or denomination and that the l ift judgment afhi- 
ally took place in the fpiritual world in the year 1757 ; 
from which sera is dated the teeond advent of the Lord, 
and tlte commencement of a New Chriftian Church, 
which, they lay, is meant by the new heaven and new 
earth in the Revelation, and the New Jcrufalem thence 
defcending. 
Such are the outlines of baron Swedenborg’s principal 
doChines, collected from his voluminous writings. His 
followersare numerous in England, Germany, Sweden, &c. 
and alfo in America. They ufe a liturgy in their worlhip, 
which, except being much fhorier, is as near to that of 
the church of England as the difference of doctrines will 
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admit. They likewife introduce a great deal of vocal 
mufic, accompanied by an organ ; and the minifter’s 
drefs is now exactly fimilar to that of the eltablifhed 
church. We find three fmall places of worfhip in London 
agreeable to this form ; viz. the one we are fpeaking of, 
which has Mr. Proud for a miniiter ; another in Friar- 
ftxeet, Blackfriars, of which Mr. Sibly is the minifterj 
and the other in Dudley-courf, near St. Giles’s church. 
Again crofting the Haymai ket, and approaching Duke 
ftreet, we find in our way an eltablifhment of about fix- 
teen years ftanding, called the European Mufeum, con-' 
taining an exhibition of pictures on fale by private con¬ 
tract ; to which we might apply the line in which Martial 
modeftly deferibes the nature of his own book : Sunt bona, 
funt quoedam mediocria, Junt mala multa : “ Some pieces of 
great value, fome of middling value, and many of no va¬ 
lue at all.” 
Returning to our furvey of Pall Mall, we find the an¬ 
cient Cumberland Houfe, now'ufed for the Ordnance-office, 
in the ftead of a new ordnance-office, lately pulled down. 
—Next to it the Auflion-rooms of Mr. Chriftie, where 
fo many valuable articles of all deferiptions have been 
fold.—And on the fame fide the temporary exhibition of 
the Indian jugglers, which has fo greatly aftonifhed thofe 
who are unacquainted with the manners of the Hindoos. 
We cannot enter here into a long difeuflion upon thefe 
luppofed magicians, who, as far as we know, may trace 
an uninterrupted line of ci-feent, from matter to fcholar, 
in order of inltrudtion, from the Magi who'dared to 
challenge, before the throne ot Pharaoh, tiie i'jperiof 
power of the Hebrew chiefs, Moles and Aaron. Thefe 
legerd main gentlemen have preferred to this moment the 
old triuk ot turning Hicks, Itones, any thing, into appa¬ 
rently living ierpetus ; and their dexterity certainly ex¬ 
ceeds all we have feen. But one of their moll aftonifhing 
feats is to ivvallow a fword ; a common practice among 
thefe circumtoraneous thaumaturgi of the country of My- 
fore, and on the court of Coromandel. We have feen the 
frightful performance ; and are decidedly of opinion that 
the fword, or piece of (feel looking like it, does not de- 
feend into the ltomach, or at all through the cefophagus; 
but through the trachea, or wind-pipe, which by early at¬ 
tempts has been made callous and able to bear the fric¬ 
tion. When the ivvord has dele-ended as far as the lobes 
of the lungs, it there finds a fmall aperture obtained by 
the experiments often made from infancy, and which, by 
the reiteration of the exercife, is prevented doling. The 
proof which we can allege for this affertion is, that the 
man, whom we have often feen, can breathe, and does 
breathe, all the time ot the performance, which could 
never be the cafe if the fword were fwallowed by the com¬ 
mon way.—We have taken this opportunity of folvi ng to 
many of our n ..ders a problem which they have very pro¬ 
bably been long inquiring about; in the perfuafion that 
the perambulator of a metropolis like this, does not only 
owe to his readers the defeription of what he fees, but his 
opinion upon the objects he meets with ; ( otherwife a fur¬ 
vey would be but a fkeleton, an unintereftirig and dry to¬ 
pography of the /kin, without entering into the caufes 
which animate the body. 
A row of elegant houfes on both fides leads us to the 
principal ornament of Pall Mall—we mean the refidence 
of the prince of Wales, now prince-regent. The old 
houfe was the favourite refidence of his iriajefty’s mother 
when prince Is dowager of Wales. The prefent building 
was erefled thirty years ago; and is a very handlome, 
though low, ftructure. It is of (tone, with two project¬ 
ing wings, and contains a principal and a mezzanine 
ftory. Phe grand entrance is by a magnificent Corinthian 
portico, over which is a triangular pediment, containing 
the prince’s arms in baffo-relievo. Round the top of the 
whole building is a baluftrade, which conceals the roof. 
In front is a handfome colonade of the Ionic order, on 
the centre of the entablature of which is a very neat mi¬ 
litary trophy, between the royal fupporters; and behind 
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