Bequest Leo Nesneley Campbell 2-24-19320 ADVERTISEMENT. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG was born at Stockholm in the year 1688. He enjoyed the advantages of a religious and liberal education, and became eminent for his attainments in literature, especially in the various branches of natural science and philosophy. About the year 1743, he was led to devote his attention principally to theology; and he was afterwards assiduously employed in preparing and publishing his various theological works, until he died. at London, in the year 1772. The following treatise was originally written in Latin, and published at Amsterdam, in the year 1763. It was afterwards translated into English, and several editions of it have already been published in England and America. The present edition has been thoroughly revised, and the translation made more literal and accurate than it was before; and it is hoped that it will also appear more simple in its phraseology, and more intelligible to common readers. The chief object of this treatise is, to exhibit the testimony of the Sacred Scripture concerning the LORD JESUS CHRIST; and thence to prove, that in Him there is a Divine Trinity, THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, united in one adorable Person, in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and that He alone is the proper object of all religious worship, God over all, blessed forever. CONTENTS. No. 1 III. That by the Law, in the widest sense, are meant all things THAT THE LORD CAME INTO THE WORLD, THAT HE MIGHT SUBJUGATE THE HELLS, AND GLORIFY HIS HUMAN, AND THAT THE PASSION OF THE CROSS WAS THE LAST COMBAT, BY WHICH HE FULLY CONQUERED THE HELLS AND FULLY GLORIFIED HIS HUMAN, THAT THE LORD, BY THE PASSION OF THE CROSS, DID NOT TAKE AWAY THAT THE IMPUTATION OF THE LORD'S MERIT IS NOTHING ELSE THAN THE REMISSION OF SINS AFTER REPENTANCE, 8 IV. That the Lord is called the Son of Man, where Redemption, Salvation, Reformation, and Regeneration are treated of, 27 THAT THE LORD MADE HIS HUMAN DIVINE, FROM THE DIVINE IN HIM. 32 IV. That the Lord made his Human Divine, by Temptations admitted therein, and by continual Victories then, V. That the full Union of the Divine and Human was effected in Him by the Passion of the Cross, which was the last of VI. That the Lord successively put off the Human taken from the Mother, and put on a Human from the Divine in Him- self, which is the Divine Human and the Son of God, VII. That thus God became Man, as in first principles, so also in II. That the Lord is called the God of Israel, and the God of II. Because the Life of Man is various according to his State, that therefore, by Spirit, is meant the various Affection of IV. That when the word Spirit is used concerning the Lord, his V. That by the word Spirit, when used concerning the Lord, is THAT THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED AGREES WITH THE TRUTH, PROVIDED THAT BY THE TRINITY OF PERSONS BE UNDER- STOOD THE TRINITY OF A PERSON, WHICH IS IN the Lord, |