and from what will be further said in the treatises just named, which are to follow.

That a New Church is meant by the New Jerusalem, the coming of which after the judgment is predicted in the Apocalypse, chap. xxi., may be seen in the last section. of this treatise.

DOCTRINE

OF

THE NEW JERUSALEM

CONCERNING THE LORD.

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CONTENTS.

I. THE WHOLE SACRED SCRIPTURE IS CONCERNING THE LORD,

AND THE LORD IS THE WORD

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II. THAT THE LORD FULFILLED ALL THE THINGS OF THE LAW,

MEANS THAT HE FULFILLED ALL THINGS OF THhe Word

1. By the Law, in the strict sense, are meant the Ten Com-

mandments of the Decalogue

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2. By the Law, in a wider sense, is meant all that was

written by Moses in his five Books

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3. By the Law, in the widest sense, are meant all things of

the Word

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III. THE LORD CAME INTO THE WORLD THAT HE MIGHT SUBJU-

Gate the HELLS, AND GLORIFY THE HUMAN; AND THE

PASSION OF THE CROSS WAS THE LAST COMBAT, BY WHICH

HE FULLY COnquered the Hells, and FULLY GLORIFIED

HIS HUMAN.

IV. BY THE PASSION OF The Cross, the Lord did not take

AWAY SINS, BUt He bore thEM.

V. THE IMPUTATION OF THE LORD'S MERIT IS Nothing else

THAN THE REMISSION OF SINS After Repentance.

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VI. THE LORd, as to the DIVINE HUMAN, is called the SON

of God; and as to the Word, the Son of MAN

1. The Lord is called the Son of Man when the Passion is

treated of

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treated of

3. The Lord is called the Son of Man where His Coming is

2. The Lord is called the Son of Man when Judgment is

treated of

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4. The Lord is called the Son of Man where Redemption,

Salvation, Reformation, and Regeneration are treated of

5. The Son of Man signifies the Lord as to the Word, be-

cause the Prophets also were called Sons of Man

VII. THE LORD MADE HIS HUMAN DIVINE FROM THE DIVINE IN

HIMSELF, AND He thus became ONE WITH THE FATHER

1. The Lord from eternity is Jehovah .

2. The Lord from eternity, or Jehovah, took on the Human

to save Men.

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3. The Lord made His Human Divine from the Divine in

Himself

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4. The Lord made His Human Divine by Temptations ad-

mitted into Himself, and by continual Victories then

5. The full Union of the Divine and the Human was effected

in Him by the Passion of the Cross, which was the last

of the Temptations

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6. The Lord successively put off the human taken from the

Mother, and put on the Human from the Divine in Him-

self, which is the Divine Human and the Son of God

7. Thus God became Man, as in first principles so also in

ultimates.

VIII. THE LORD IS GOD HIMSELF, FROM WHOM AND CONCERNING

WHOM THE WORD IS

1. The Lord is called Jehovah

2. The Lord is called the God of Israel and the God of Jacob.

3. The Lord is called the Holy One of Israel

4. The Lord is called Lord and God

5. The Lord is called King and the Anointed

6. The Lord is called David.

IX. GOD IS ONE, AND THE LORD IS THAT GOD

X. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE DIVINE PROCEEDING FROM THE
LORD, AND THIS IS THE LORD HIMSELF

1. By the Spirit is meant the Life of Man

2. Because the Life of Man varies according to his State,

therefore by Spirit is meant the varying Affection of

Life with Man.

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3. By Spirit is meant the Life of the Regenerate, which is

called Spiritual Life

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4. By Spirit, when the Lord is spoken of, is meant His Di-

vine Life, thus the Lord Himself.

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5. By Spirit, when the Lord is spoken of, is meant in partic-

ular the Life of His Wisdom, which is the Divine Truth

6. Jehovah Himself, that is, the Lord, spake the Word by

the Prophets

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