NEW 
760 
the eaft and Hardwick on the weft: twenty-one miles 
north-weft of Worceftev. It has 875 inhabitants, 
NEW BRID'GE, a village in Suffex, north-eaft of 
Petworth. 
NEW BRIT'AIN. See Britain, vol. iii. p. 417. 
NEW BRUN'SWICK. See Brunswick, vol.iii. p.456. 
Since that article was printed, fome difputes have occurred 
between the Britilh and American governments on the 
fubject of the boundary-line between this province and 
the diftridt of Maine. On the 21ft of September, 1814, 
the Britifh lieutenant-general Sherbrook iffued a pro¬ 
clamation at Halifax in Nova Scotia, Hating that “ formal 
pofl’effion, in his majefty’s name, has been taken of all the 
eaftern fide of the Penobfcot-river, and all the country 
lying between that river and the boundary-line of New 
Brunfwick, including Long Ifland, and all the other 
iilands near and contiguous to the ihores thereof 5” the 
chief of which are Fox, Hart, and Deer, iilands; befides 
a number of fmall iilands, rocks, and ledges. It appears, 
therefore, that the Penobfcot-river, inftead of the St. Croix, 
now forms the boundary between the Englifti and the 
Americans in this quarter. 
In the year 1770, the minifters of the Dutch church 
appropriated a fum of money to the eftablilhment of a 
college at New Brunfwick; which, as it has always been 
devoted to the interefts of that denomination, was lately 
conveited into a purely theological feminary. It has a 
board of twenty-nine truftees, a prefident, vice-prefident, 
and one profefior. The ftudents are, for the moft part, 
the children of Dutch emigrants. The library is fmall, 
but well feledted ; and the whole machinery of the fchool 
is under very good regulation. 
NEW BUCK'ENHAM. See BuckeNHam, vol. iii. 
NEW BUIL'DING, a village in the north riding of 
Yorklhire, near Burrowby, in the road from Thirlk. 
MEW'-BUILT, adj. Lately built; recently eredted: 
Our houfe has fent to-day 
T’ infure our. new-built vefiel call’d a play. Dryden. 
MEW CALEDO'NIA. See Caledonia, vol. iii. p. 613. 
NEW CAN'TON, a fmall poft-town of America, lately 
eftablilhed, in Buckingham-county, Virginia, on the fouth 
fide of James’s River: feventy miles above Richmond. 
NEW CAS'CO, a poft-town of America, in Cumber- 
land-county, Maine: 613 miles north-eaft from Wafii- 
ington. 
NEW CHES'TER, a townlhip of America, in Grafton- 
county, New Hampfhire, on the weft fide of Pemigewaffet 
River, incorporated in 1778: thirteen miles below Ply¬ 
mouth. 
NEW-CHO'SEN, adj. Newly chofen ; lately chofen : 
Let this be nature’s frailty, or her fate, 
Or Ifgrim’s counfel, her new-cliojen mate. Dryden. 
NEW (JERUSALEM) CHURCH. Under the article 
London, vol.'xiii. p. 570, 1. we have given the leading 
tenets of Emanuel Swedenborg, the founder of the New 
jerufalem Church. From that article it will be colledted, 
that, while the Jews are praying for the firfc coming of 
the Mefiiah, which the Chriftians aflirm to have happened 
1800 years ago, and while the Chriftians are praying for 
his fecond coming, the Swedenborgians affirm this to have 
been accompliftied in the year 1757. See p. 571 of that 
article. 
The main points of faith in this church are the fol¬ 
lowing: I. That God is one, in whom is a divine tri¬ 
nity; and that the Lord God the Saviour Jelus Chrift is 
that God. II. That a faving faith is to believe on Him. 
III. That eviis ought to be Ihunned, becaufe they are of 
the devil and from the devil. IV. That good actions 
ought to be done, becaufe they are of God aiffl from God. 
V. And that they lhould he done by man as ofhimfelf, 
neverrbelefs under this belief, that they are froth the Lord 
operating in him and by him. The two firft particulars 
have relation to faith; the two next to charity; and the 
NEW 
laft refpedleth the conjunction of charity and faith, and 
thereby of the Lord and man. Brief Expofttion of the 
Doctrines of the New Church, by Swedenborg ; 1769. 
As the works of Emanuel Swedenborg are very volu¬ 
minous, and as very few perfons not of his perfuafion have 
patience to read them, we ftiall leledt fome of the molt 
curious pafluges which relate to the world of fpirits and 
the ftate of man after death, from his Arcana Ccelcftia, in 
13 volumes 8vo. 
“ The fpiritual world, or world of fpirits, (he fays,) 
exifts not in fpace : hence, I could there fee Africans and 
Indians very near me, though fituuted at a great drftance on 
earth; and be prefent with the inhabitants of other planets, 
not oniy in our fyftem, but in other worlds. In this way 
I have converfed with apoftles, departed popes, emperors, 
and kings ; with the late reformers of the church, Luther, 
Calvin, and Melandthon ; and with others from different 
countries. After death a man is fo little changed, that 
hedoes not know but he is ftill living in the prefent wmrld; 
he eats and drinks, and enjoys conjugal delight, as in this 
world; and lo great is the refemblance between the two 
worlds, that in the fpiritual world there are cities with 
palaces and houfes, and alfo books and writings, employ¬ 
ments and merchandile, gold, filver, and precious ftones. 
But all thefe objedts are in an infinitely-more perfedt ftate 
than they are in this world. 
“ The world of fpirits is neither heaven nor hell, but a 
place or ftate betwixt both, into which man immediately 
enters after death; and, after flaying there a certain time, 
longer or fhorter according to what his paft life had been 
in this world, he is either received up into heaven, orcaft 
down into hell. It muft be noted here, that this inter¬ 
mediate ftate has nothing in it of the probationary kind; 
for that is all over with the life of this world ; but is a ftate 
of a feparation, or reducing every one to his own proper 
prevailing principle, and as fuch finally preparatory for an 
eternal happinels or mifery. 
“ As the world of fpirits is a middle ftate with man, 
between heaven and hell, fo it is alfo a middle place, 
having the hells underneath and the heavens above. All 
the hells are firut next to that world, except that fome 
holes or clefts, like thole in rocks or caverns, are left 
open; and thefe fo guarded, that none can pafs through 
them but by permifiion, which is granted on particular 
occaiions. Heaven likewife appears as fenced all round, 
fo that there is no palling to any of the heavenly focieties, 
but by a narrow way, which is likewife guarded. Thefe 
outlets and inlets are what in Scripture are called the 
doors and gates of heaven and hell. 
“ The world of fpirits appears like a valley, between 
mountains and rocks, here and there finking and riling. 
The doors and gates opening to the heavenly focieties are 
only feen by thole who are in their preparation for heaven; 
nor are they to be found by any others. To every fociety 
in heaven there is an entrance from the world of fpirits, 
after palling which there is a way, which as it rifes branches 
into feverai others : nor are the doors and gates of the hells 
vifible to any but thole that are going to enter therein, 
to whom they are then opened ; at which time thefe appear 
like as it were dark and looty caverns, leading obliquely 
down to the infernal alryfs, where there are alfo more 
gates. Through thole dark and difmal caverns, exhale 
certain foetid vapours, which are moft offenfive to the 
good fpirits; but which the evil ones are greedily fond of; 
for, as were the evils which any one took moft delight in 
when in this world, fuch is theItink correfponding thereto 
which molt pleafes him in the other; in which they may¬ 
be aptly compared to thofe birds or beads of prey, as 
ravens, wolves, and fwine, which are attracted by the rank 
effluvia emitted, from carrion and putrid carcaffes. 
“ When the body of a man is no longer able to perform 
its natural fundlions correlbonding to the' thoughts and 
affections of his jpirit, and which are derived to him from 
the fpiritual world, then he is laid-to die; which comes 
to pals when the lungs and the heart ceafe their relpira- 
tory 
