THE PRACTICAL NATURE OF THE THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, IN A Letter TO HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, OCCASIONED BY HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THAT SUBJECT IN HIS ESSAYS ON SOME OF THE PECULIARITIES OF THE CHRISTIAN BELIGION. BY THE REV. AUGUSTUS CLISSOLD, M.A., FORMERLY OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD. "Unless the Lord's Humanity be acknowledged to be Divine, the Church must Second Edition, revised and enlarged. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1860. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. EX8721 C5 In the Essays on some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion, by His Grace the present Archbishop of Dublin, occurs the following passage relative to the receivers of the writings of Swedenborg :"Though his followers insist much on the importance of believing in this pretended revelation, it would, I believe, be difficult for them to state even any one point on which a man is called upon to alter either his conduct, his motives, or his moral sentiments, in consequence of such belief. The system furnishes. abundant matter of faith and food for curiosity, but has little or no intelligible reference to practice." In this statement there appears to be a slight obscurity. It might not, perhaps, be easy at first to determine whether the passage implies, that there is no difference between the practical principles of Swedenborg and those commonly received; or that, as a whole, his writings have little or no intelligible reference to any practice whatever. A gentleman, it M368130 |