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2. " 3. THBINTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.No. 37. JANUARY, 1843. VOL. IV.THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY; ITS USEFULNESS,AND ITS CLAIMS.IN the Editors- concluding Address, in the last number, it was stated,that an important change had been made in the editorial department ofthis Magazine. It has ~een deemed advisable by the Conference, andresolved accordingly, that there shall be but one Editor, whose wholeenergies may be expected to be concentrated upon the work, as a neces-sary result of a concentrated responsibility. * There are certain. periods in human life when it is desirable andnecessary to look back on our past career, and to take a retrospectiveview of the history, events, acts, and states of our life. This is onecondition and means of our progressive improvement as intelligent,moral, and spiritual beings. The great object of all history is, toinstruct the present generation in the experience of the past, and henceto derive new and certain criteria for our present conduct, both as anation, and as individuals. This is true not only of nations in theaggregate, and of individuals in particular, but also of institutions,churches, socjeties, and of every work and employment in which weare engaged to laboUr and to co-operate with each other for theuniversal good. The " I ntellect.al Repository" has now completed the thirtieth yearof its existence, and we may say that it has survived one generation ofthe human race. Numbers who felt a deep interest in the cause ofHoly Truth at the period when this periodicai commenced in 1812, andwho were instrumental in establishing it as an humble advocate, anddefender of those sublime truths and doctrines which are made knownto the world throllg1:l the instrumentality of the enlightened and humbleEmanuel Swedenborg, are now in the eternal world; and a few onlysurvive, who bear in affectionate remembrance their pious and en-lightened zeal in the cause of the New Dispensation of love and of See Minutes of the last General Conference, 103-1-11, and also the Report ofthe Magazine Committee, &c. p. 40.N.S. NO. 37.-VOL.IV. B 4. 2 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY truth to the hwnan race. This Magazine contains the records of the Church during the early periods of its rise and fonnation; it records itsstruggles and its triumphs; it preserves in its pages numerous mostinstructive and edifying essays aftd articles from the pens of the vener-able Clowes; Hindmarsh, Sibly, and others, who delighted in the truthwhen upon earth, and who are now enjoying its ineffable splendours illthe realms of bliss. This periodical is also endeared to the memory ofthe living, by its records of the faithful, and the dear departed, whowere esteemed and beloved upon earth, and to the enjoyment of whosesociety in heaven they look forwards with anticipation and delight.The son and the daughter here find recorded the brief and simplememoir of a pious and an honored father, and the sweet Inelnorial ofa devout and an affectionate mother, who, in their life and christianexample, had "adorned the doctrine of God their Saviour." Hence theclaims of the " Intellectual Repository" have, it is presumed, a stronghold upon the affection and regard of the present generation. When we look back, we behold many difficulties which this periodicalhas had to encounter. The zealous individuals who first patronized it,could scarcely hope that it~ continuance would have been prolonged,without intermission, to the present period. It has, however, gone onprogressively increasing in literary support and friendly patronage, inproportion as the truths and doctrines it advocates have become knownand esteemed amongst men. The great object of this Magazine is theinstruction and edification of the New Church, and the propagation ofthose spiritual treasures of knowledge contained in the writings of thenew Dispensation, by which, as we verily believe, every subject oftheology and of mental and sacred philosophy is placed in its truescriptural and rational light, and divested of those gross fallacies andfalsities, which a mental naturalism and. sensu8lism has for ages pastaccumulated around them. The human mind, however, viewed as toits intellectual operations is, at the present period, struggling to emergefrom these gross mists of naturalism and sensualism into a pureratmosphere of rational and spiritual truth. This is. evident from thegeneral and growing desire, which is Inanifest to change the presentmodes of thinking on the most important points of theology, and fromthe collision of opinions which so generally prevails. The present isevidently a transition-period in the history of the human mind, which isalways a period of great mental anxiety to those who sincerely seek thetruth. And shall not we, who possess the wonderful discoveries ofeternal truth from the opening of the Spiritual Sense of the HolyWord, and the genuine doctrines of Christianity, come forward at thepresent important period with more zeal and diligence than ever? To 5. AND NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.3 this end, however, a concentration of energies is required, and thefHI",t,llectual Repository," which has been so long in the service of the New Church, appears to be the legitimate point and centre of intellectual union and strength for this purpose. Hence the great. usefulness of this monthly periodical, if adequately supported and properly conducted, is abundantly apparent; and, as its circulation is, at the present period, about one thousand per month, it is obvious that a wide field is opened for the propagation of those principles which it is established to promote. We therefore earnestly appeal to all, who feel an interest in promoting the real and eternal Good of their fellow- creatures, to assist in advancing the cause of Truth, by which, as the chief means, that Good can be received from the only Source of all Good-the LORD IN HIS DIVINE HUMANITy-and eternally secured and enjoyed. This assistance may be rendered in :various w~ys: by litemry support, in contributing instructive essays on spiritual and moral subjects; by pointing out subjects, the proper development of which might instrnct and edify the readers of the work; by marking the signs of the times in their relatIon to the Church and to the spiritual and intellectual aspect of society; by indicating new fields of useful exertion in the cause of truth; by suggesting means of improvement in education,and in the management of our different institutions; by pointing out newpublications, the review of which might be serviceable to the progress oftruth; by contributing facts and phenomena from science, and shewingtheir relation, by the Science of Correspondences, to spiritual things,which are thereby illustrated and confinned ; by preventing the bitterspirit of controversy from interfering with free enquiry and friendlydiscussion; in short, we solicit a contribution, both in prose and poetry,of whatever things are calculated to promote the cause of genuineChristianity,-the cause of Goodness and Truth, of Charity and Faith,and their Union in establishing" Glory to God in tM kigM,tj on earthpeace, and good will wfJJards men." For as all things in the spiritualand natural worlds, which are according to order, relate to the GOODand the TRUE, and to their UNION and consequent USE; so all thingsin man, in every association of men, and in every institution, should havethe same relation and ~ndency.May the Lord, without whom we can do nothing, and from whomcometh every good and perfect gift, and ,to whom all merit and praisemust be ascribed, prosper our feeble attempts to prolDote his kingdomupon earth ! EDITOR. Manchester. 6. 4THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORYTHE HUMAN SOUL. [TRANSLA.TBD FROM SWEDENBOBGS "ECONOMY OF THE ANIMA.L KINGDO)f:*] To the Editor of tke Intellectual Repo.itory.SIR,In some of the earlier numbers of your Magazine,t I find atranslation of the chapter on the Doctrine of Series and Degrees, aspropounded by Swedenborg in his work entitled the tt Economy of tAe,Animal Kingdom." A very important use is made of this Doctrine inits application to the subject of The Human Soul, as treated of bySwedenborg in the same work; and as it may be considered to bealmost an independent treatise in itself, and may serve to throw lightOD the progress of the subject in Swedenborgs mind, it may possiblyprove to. be of no ordinary interest to many of your readers. It will beobvious that on the Doctrine of DegrelB as applied to the human soul,in some respects in the ensuing treatise, he fell into error;t like askilful ehemist, however, in conducting his experiments, he derivedinstruction even from his failures, and was enabled to correct the errorin his subsequent works. With all its defects, the present chapter maybe regarded as conveying most important truths, and as opening to us themost sublime views in human physiology; so that whoever reads it withattention and with a proper spirit, can scarcely fail to ..become a wiserand a better man. As far as regards the translation itself, I do notdoubt that subsequent writers may considembly improve it, I will how-ever endeavour ID state briefly the principles at which I have aimed inthe course of my labours; fir,t, to give the real meaning of the authorin 81 plain and suitable terms as I could; B600adly, to present so muchof the peculiarity of diction as is consistent with the English idiom;thirdly, on all points of science and philosophy, to translate the originalas faithfully as possible, but in all cases of amplification and orna-ment, to omit words which, however elegant in Latin, would onlyencumber an English version. The ensuing chapter on Ths Humo,If, Soul forms a part of an Englishtranslation of the "EcOfl,omy Dj the .I1nilltGl Kingdom ;" for furtherinfonnation on which subject, the reader is referred to the notice towardthe end of the present number of the Magazine.Yours, &c., A. C . The " Bconomy oJ tire ~taimal Kingdom" was published by Swedenborg, MAmsterdam, in two parts, in 1740 and ]741, three or four years before hisespeoialspirltual illumination commenced. t See Vol. for 1824 & 5, p. 62, and the following Vol.tThe nature of the error into which Swedenborg fell in the present chapter hasalready been txplained at large in a former number of this periodical; see NewSeries, October, 1826, p. 316, note. 7. AND NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.THE HUMAN SOUL. THIRD CHAPTER.208. In the first treatise I endeavoured, by way of introduction to aknowledge of the soul, to expound a doctrine which I have called theDoctrins of Swie. and Degr,u. This I did, inasmuch as for a longtime I had been led to consider, and with many to doubt, whether thesubject of the Human Soul was one which was accessible to any reachof mind, that is to say, whether it was capable of being thoroughlyinvestigated; for certain it is that the soul is far removed from theexternal senses; that it lies secreted in the profoundest depths of know-ledge, being the supreme and the ultimate in the order of those thingswhich successively reveal themselves to our enquiries. On a slight con-sideration of the subject, I could not but think with mankind in general, that all our knowledge of it W88 to be attempted either by a bare. reasoning philosophy, or more immediately by the anatomy of thehuman body. Upon making the attempt, however, I found myself as far from my object as ever; for no sooner did I seem to have mastered the subject, than I found it again eluding my grasp, though it neverabsolutely disappeared from my view. Thus were my hopes notdestroyed, but deferred; frequently did I reproach myself with stu- pidity in being ignorant of that which was yet everywhere most reallypresent to me; since by reason of the soul it is that we hear, 888, feel,perceive, remember, imagine, think, desire, will; or that we are, move,and live. The soul it is because of which, by which, and out of which,principally exists the visible corporeal kingdom; to the soul it is thatwe are to ascribe whatsoever excites our admiration and astonishmentin the anatomy of the body; the body being constructed according todie image of the souls nature, or according to the fonn of its operations.Thus did I seem to see, and yet not to see, the very object, with the desire of knowing which I was never at rest. At length, however, I discovered that nothing is farther removed from the hum8R intellect than what at the same time is most really present; 8lld that nothing is more really preeent than that which is more universal, prior, and superior, since this enters into every particular, into every thing pos- terior and inferior,-a discovery, on making which I awoke as from a profound slumber. What is more omnipresent than the Deity,~in him we live, and are, and move,--end yet what is more remote from the sphere of our intellect? In vain does the mind stretch its powers to attain to any degree of knowledge of the essentials and attributes of the supreme and omnipotent beyond that which, in proportion to each Inans indi- vidual exertions, he has been pleased to reveal. (252. ) 8. 6 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY20Q. There is nothing, however, morecommon to the hUlnan mind,than the wish to mount up all at once from the lowest to the highest principles; for what sciolist, what tyro is there who does not aspire fromthe mdiments of some science forthwith to its loftiest summit; as fromthe principles of geometry to the quadrature of the circle; f!om theprinciples of mechanism to perpetual motion; from the principles ofchemistry to some alcahest or the production of gold; from the prin-ciples of philosophy to the substantia prima, or first substance of theworld; and from every other science to that of the human soul? Ifagain we turn from the love of sciences to the love of the world, do wenot see the same principles prevailing? For even in this ca~ who does not long for the highest stations, to advance from one honor to another,from one acquisition to another, till all become lavished upon him ?Can you point out any considerable number in civil society who placeany check or limit to efforts of this kind, beyond that which they receivefrom actual impossibility or necessity? Be their pursuits whatever theymay, will not the diffident be encouraged by hopes of attaining thehighest possible summit of their wishes? Thus does the ambition ofour first parent remain deeply rooted in the nature of his children, andevery son of Adam, as he walks upon the earth, wishes, by stretchingout his arm, to touch the heavens with his finger.210. The more, however, a person is endowed with the power ofdiscerning the distinctions between things, the more clearly will heperceive, that there is in things an order, that there are degrees of order,and that it is by these alone he can progress, and this step by step, from lowest to highest, or from outermost to innermost principles; foras often as nature ascends out of external phenomena, or betakes herselfinwardly, she seems to have separated from us, and to have left us alto..gether in the dark as to what direction she has taken; we have Deedtherefore of some sciences to serve as our guide in tracing out her steps-to ariange all things into series,-to distinguish these series into degrees,and to enable us to contemplate the order of each single thing in theorder of the whole. The science which does this I have called theDoctri",~ of Series and Degrees, or the Doctrine of Order; a sciencewhich it was necessary to premise to enable us to follow closely in thesteps of nature; since to attempt without it to approach and visit her inher sublime abode, would be to attempt to climb heaven by the tower ofBabel; for the highest step must be approached by the intermediate.They who know nothing of this ladder of nature, and who think toreach the summit by a single stride, are little aware that in making theattempt they wilJ only dash themselves to the earth, and will be foundat last by their friends, upon enquiry into their fate, precipitated into the 9. AND NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.7depths of 801118 shadowy gulph, as into what is occult, for instance, wherethey are surrounded with darkness; since in what is occult the wisest isunable to discern the qualities of things. 211. The doctrine of Seriu dnd Degrees, however, only teaches thedistinction and relation between things superior and inferior, or priorand posierior; it is unable to express by adequate terms, proper to itself,things which transcend its own particular sphere. If therefore wewould ascend to a higher altitude, we must use terms which are stillmore abstract, universal, and eminent, lest we confound with the cor-poreal senses things, of which we ought not only to have distinctperceptions, but which, in reality, are distinct. Hence it is necessarythat we have recourse to a Mathematical Philosophy of U",iver,au,which shall be enabled, not only to signify higher ideas by letters pro-ceeding in simple order; but also to reduce them to a certain philo-sophical calculus, in its form and ill some of its rules not unlike theanalysis of infinites; for in higher ideas, much more in the highest,occur things too ineffable to be represented by common* ideas. But, in .truth, what an Herculean task must it be to build up a system of thiskind! What a stupendous exercise of intellectual power does it require!Demanding, as it does, the vigilance of the entire mind t [animo], theassistance also of the superior mind [men,] or the soul, to which scienceis proper and natural, and which represents nothing to itself by thesigns used in speech; takes nothing from the common catalogue ofwords, but by m~ans of the primitive and universal doctrine we havementioned, connate both with itself and with the objects of nature;abstracts out of all things their nature and essence; and prepares, ex-pedites, and evolves each in the mutest silence. To this universalscience, therefore, are subject all other sciences and arts; through theinmost arcana of which it proceeds in its advance from its own principlesto causes, from causes to effects, by an order proper to itself, and whichis the natural order. This truth will become sufficiendy manifest, if wecontemplate the body which belongs to the soul, the viscera of the body,the sensory and motory organs, together with the other parts which areformed to a dependance upon, a connexion and harmony with, eachother; in fine, to the modes of universal nature, so nicely, skilfully, andwonderfully, that there is nothing latent in the inmost and most abstruseprinciples of nature, science or art, which it has not the knowledge andpower of evoking to its aid, according as it is required. 212. That such a scie:nce of sciences can be found, many of the Or general, because an infinite number of particulars are perceived as onecommon one.t Excubandum enim est toto animo. 10. 8 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORYlearned have already suspected, nay, have beheld it, as it were, afar off.(Treatise I. 601.) The illustrious Locke, in his golden treatise on theHuman Understanding, near the close of his work, after his profound in-vestigation of the powers of the mind, discovers at last, as if by divination,that there was yet another and profounder science. "Perhaps,: says he,"this latter species of science, or the tTfIJJELWTLIC7J, which treats of ideasand words, if distinctly weighed and duly considered, would afford usanother sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto Hacquainted with.(Book 4, chap. 21. sec. 4.) And in another placelie obserVes, "The ideas that ethics are conversant about being all realessences, and such as, I imagine, have a discoverable connexion andagreement one with another, 80 far as we can find their habitudes andrelations, so far we shall be possessed of certain real and general truths; and I doubt not but, if a right method were taken, a great part ofmorality might be made out with that clearness that could leave to aconsidering man no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt, of the truth of propositions in mathematics which have been demon-strated to him." (Book 4. chap. 12. sec. 8.) * That to such a science,, seen obscurely it is true, yet so desirable, any other way ~an lead than the doctrine of the order, or of the Series and Degrees existing in theworld and nature, I can not be induced to believe; for all the othersciences-like derivative streams-regard this as their fountain head ; -a doctrine which, as it penetrates into abstract principles, and into thatregion of the ideas where resides the faculty which alone thinks, which has no speech, which whispers not a word, which exercises an intuitioninto the meanings of sentences, represents them to itself, and separatesthem into a certain number of numbers ;-80 it can, for this reason, give, in a short compass, the mode, roles, and form pertaining to acertain supreme science which by mute letters will briefly designate things which can scarcely be signified by words without using periphrasesand long and circuitous periods. This is the science which I just nowcalled the Mathematical Doctrine of UIliversals. The use of either wecan scarcely teach by bare thought; but we shall make experiment of them by their wonderful application to examples, for there is nothingto which they do not extend. If judgment consist in the faculty ofdistinguishing one simple and compound idea from another, lest anyapparent similarity or affinity lead us to mistake the one for the other,we are assuredly so far destitute of judgment, as we are ignol"ant how, .in things simultaneous, to separate in due order things which havesuccessively entered and are successively involved; or to abstract causes, Swedenborg has copied from a French edition, but the original is here introduced. 11. AND NEW JERUSALBM MAGAZINE. 9and also causes of causes, from the effects in which these causes appear,although obscurely, never distinctly, and scarcely at all, without ourhaving recourse to the higher intellectual powers.213. But even were it granted, that the Doctrifl of Order and theScience of U""iv,r,al, were carried by the human mind to the acme ofperfection; nevertheless it does not follow that we should, by these meansalone, be brought into the knowledge of all that can be known; for thesesciences are but subsidiary, serving only, by a compendious methodand mathematical certainty, to lead us, by continued abstractions andelevations of thought, from things posterior to things prior; or from theworld of effects, which is the visible, to the world of causes and prin-ciples, which is the invisible. Hence, in order that these sciencesmay be available, we must have recourse to experiment, and to thephenomena presented to the senses; without which they would remainin a state of bare theory and bare capability of aiding us. Algebraicalanalysis, for example, without lines, figures, and numbers, applied tothe objects of natural philosophy and general economy, would be onlya beautiful calculus, destitute of any practical application to the usesof life. The foregoing sciences, consequently, make known their realvalue onIy in proportion to our degree of experimental knowledge.They emulate, indeed, the very order of animal ~ature, which is, thatthe rational mind shall receive instruction successively from phenomena, through the medium of the five.. fold organism of the external senses;that when it has matured its principles, it may begin to look aroundand to enlarge the sph~re of its rational vision, so as, from a fewcauses slightly modified, to be enabled to extend its view into an infinitenwnber of effects; for these reasons, I have been for some time under a strong persuasion that the essence and nature of the soul, its inllux into the body, and the reciprocal action of the body can never offer itself to demonstration wi~out a knowledge of anatomy, pathology, and psychologJ; nay, eveil of natural philosophy, more especially of the auras; and that, unless our labours take this direction, we shall at every new age be employed only in building new systems, which will as often be tumbling to the ground, without the possibility of being rebuilt.214. This, and no other, has been the reason for which, with diligent study and intense application, I have investigated the anatomy of the body, principally the human, so far as we are supplied with experi- mental knowledge; and not only this, but each individual part of the body, after a similar manner in which I have, in the present volume, treated of the cortical substance. In doing this, I may perhaps havegone beyond the ordinary lhnits of inquiry, so that but Jew of my N.S. NO. 37.-VOL. IV. C 12. 10 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY readers may be able distinctly to unders~d me. Thus far, however, I felt bound to venture; inasmuch as I had resolved, cost what it might,to trace out the nature of the human soul. He therefore who desiresthe end~ ought to desire the means. I freely acknowledge, that Ihave availed myself of the experimental documents of men mostworthy of my confidence,-documents which have been written at theexpense of much study and pains,-and that I have availed myselfof only a few, selected from my own private experience. But I would prefer that my knowledge upon subjects of this nature should proceedfrom an- examination of the experience of others, rather than from actual manipulation; for I have found that those, not excepting the most learned,whose information is derived from their own particular experience, areapt to be carried away into untoward views and perverse notions of causes, more easily than othem who derive their infonnation not from private, but from general experience,-not from their own, but from the experience of others. (Treatise I. 18.) For not only do pemons of the former description both study and favour the mere external senses, rather than the rational mind (menti) within or above the senses, and 100 freely judge of every thing that comes before them from their own partial information; but they are smitten with the love of their own discoveries and imagina- tions, in which they c!lntemplate their own image. as a parent does in hisoffspring. Hence the reason for which they not unfrequently, with akind of royal superciliousness, look down upon all who pay not homageto their favourite theories, which they themselves adore to distraction;but as Seneca observes: It he is born to live bpt for a few years, whoeontemplates only the people of his own, gtmeratitm; others will come after him, who will form thei,, judgmsnt of his Works witA01J,t jafJOtl,r or 0.u ence" ,,11:215. There is no reason, however, why we should disparage theliving, or detract from the merit due to the present age; for few, indeed,there are who now contend for any hypothesis or system from any realfaith in it, or love for it. Various and innumerable are the motives~which prevail upon them to profess with the lips that they believe whatthey do not believe; the mere enumeration of these motives wouldoccupy too large a portion of these pages. Who is there, if he be candidand free to confess it, that does not regard the known as unknown, thetrue as probable, and the probable as false? Or who, if he has notsufficient time or talent for discussing the several arguments, does nottacitly, in his own mind, come to neither affirmation nor negation uponthe subject? Indeed, we may form a judgment of the state of thehuman mind from this circumstance, that it is a maxim n8VW to givecredence,. or at least implicit aBsent, to any thing but to actual demo.- 13. AND NEW JBRUSALBM MAGAZINE.11st,atiOtl; and should anyone set himself to work in furnishing the de-monstration, their opinion then is, tA6y .,t Mxt Mar thl otkw ,itU 0/,~ qu.,lion i for experience teaches them that there is nothing whichan orator may not establish, as an aliquot part of many differentseries of ratiocinations, and the philosopher, in many series of facts;just as one syllable, one word, one phrase, may run throughout anever-ending series of sentences. and discourses, or one colour pervadean infinite number of pictures. The mind (m.nI) indeed may, at thetime of its fonnation, be embued also with principles which are derived from sophistical arguments, but which yet do not become 80 deeply rooted in our nature as perhaps we may think; for the intellect, when advanced to a mature age, discovers itself to be free, and to be placed in the capacity of judging for itself from the principles it had received in infancy, from those which have since been superinduced, and from others which have been traced out by its own individual experience; the consequence of which is, it accedes only to those which display the greatest light of truth; for so far as we place ourselves in bondage under the judgments of others, we limit our faculties, and consign ounelves to slavery; wherefore there is no rational mind that does not aspire to the enjoyment of its own golden liberty, and with this viewranges in thought over universal nature, in order to find out the truth,and, wherever it lies, to receive it with open embrace. In things divine,however, the case is different; since they are ever speciously mcw-eated by persons, each according to the fo~ of his own particularcreed, and in regard to them the mind is commanded to abdicate itsreason; in consequence of which the impressions it receives remainpennanently sacred and inviolate, even from the dawn of the intellec-tual powers to their greatest development. 216. Meanwhile, those disputes that take place among the leadersof the learned and the lights of the world,-disputes concerning thatvery soul into which we are eternally to transcribe all the happiness weenjoy in the body, which never can be settled by a mere strife for themastery, cannot but have the effect of throwing the minds of men intoa state of doubt, and contracting their faith within a very narrowcompass; for it is but natural to a man not to assent to any thingunknown before he has consulted his reason (mentem) i and in thingsaltogether unseen, not to believe that a thing is, unless in some measureit be known lDhat it is,-a habit more common to the leamed than to theunlearned; because the former, the more they confide in themselves,the le88 do they presume upon the impossibility of coming to a perfectknowledge of its nature. If, therefore, we deprive the soul of everypredicate which belongs to things material, as" for instance" of extense, 14. 12 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORYfigure, space, magnitude, and motion, we deprive the mind of everything to which, as to an anchor, it can attach its ideas; the consequenceis, that every one is left in doubt whether, after all, the soul be anythingdistinct from the entity of reason, and whether there can possibly bean intercourse between two entities; to one of which is ascribed thatwhich is a privation of the other, or of one of which there is. noassignable notion. But still I know thft those who are more capable ofunderstanding than of willing truer sentiments, that is, who may bemore intelligent than we may think, in discerning truths, notwith-standing the collision between probabilities and appearances, suffer not themselves to be deceived by mere outward appearances, or to cOllcedetheir faith, unless conllDon experience induce them to come to a like persuasion, or unless they perceive in the order of things the last to exist with the first, through media demonstratively connected and confinned.217. We may consider it as an acknowledged fact, that when any one attains to the truth, all experience, as well general as particular, will be in his favor; as also all the rules and decisions of rational philosophy; and that the various systems which ha;e been made upon the subject, will fonn themselves into such agreement one with the other, that each will receive its own proper confirmation, (for there is none which will not be cOWltenanced by ascertained phenomena,) and be established upon principles which will lead us to reconcile things superior with things inferior,-things spiritual with things corporeal. If truth itself walk forth to the light, and display itself before us, as upon a stage, then will all conjecture be at an end, and those clouds of flitting motes be dissipated, which were previously seen and imagined in the dark. There is no difficulty which it will not remove, no mortal whom it will fear, no rock on which it will founder. Hers Will be the liberty of looking even into the third sanctuary, though not the liberty of entering; for the truth of nature, and the truth of revelation, how-ever separate, are never at variance. Still, although the truth may thus be brought to light,-a consummation devoutly to be wished,-I wouldobserve, that its habitation is so inward and exalted, that it will notpennit itself to be revealed to any who are still lingering among last andlowest principles, but to those only who have acquired a habit of thought,who can extend the range of their mental vision throughout the wholeorder of confirmatory facts; and, in the perception of consequences,can remove it far from the senses and from the lower affections (animo).Inasmuch, however, as this power is not granted to everyone; for saithCicero, "The divine mind hath respect only to those whom it hatAendowed with right reason;" and because this exercise of the rationalpowers would, at the S81ne time, deplive the inferior faculties of their 15. AND NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINJo;.13useful and agreeable enjoyments; we may hence see the reason whythere are those who stubbornly refuse to stir a single step beyond visiblephenomena fot the sake of the truth, and others who prefer plunginginto occult principles at the very outset. To these two classes our kindof demonstration may not be acceptable. For, in regard to the fonner,we assert, that the truth is to be sought far beyond the limits of thecorporeal sight; and, in regard to the latter, that in all nature there isno such thing as an occult quality; which although not already the subject of demonstration, yet is capable of becoming so.218. The foregoing remarks are not made with a view to derogate from the authority or credit due to the writings of others, who are adorned with genius and science,-far from it; since to every man, in pro- portion as he approaches the .truth, ought to be awarded his own laurel. Of what consequence is it to me that I should bring anyone over to my opinions? Let his own reason persuade him. I undertake not this work for the sake of honour or emohunent; both of which I shun rather than seek, inasmuch as they disquiet the mind: and I am moreover content with my lot. It is in the cause of truth alone that ~ desire to be engaged,-that truth which alone is immortal, which lives only in that order of nature which is the most perfect; hence in the series only of those ends which reach on to the last-even to the glory of the Deity; which ends He promotes: thus I well know, who will reward me. These first fruits of my Psychological labours I now proceed, ac- cording to the method I have hitherto adopted, to arrange into chapters.(To be continued.)SIGNS OF THE TIMES IN RELATION TO THE CHURCH.THE Lord, when upon earth, directed the eyes of those around hiInto the signs of the times. (Matt. xvi. 3. ) The Scribes and thePharisees could well discern the signs of the times in relation to theworld, and the states of the weather; but the 0 bj ect .of the DivineSpeaker was to direct them to a consideration of the states of theChurch, and to those signs which were testimonies of his First Advent.On observing the states of the Church at the present time, and onconsidering the operations of the human mind, there are numerousligna to evince, that we are now living at the end of one Dispensationand at the commencement of a new one. The following extracts fromthe most distinguished writers of the day, plainly point out numeroussigns in the intellectual horizon, which strikingly testify to the fact, thatwe are now living at the end of the Church, so oft.en declared and 16. 14 THE INTBLLECTUAL REPOSITORYdemonstrated by Swedenborg. But as certain as the dawn and themorning succeed midnight, so certain it is, that the Lord in his mercyand providence has abundantly provided, by the opening of the SpiritualSense of the Word, and by revealing the genuine doctrines of Chris-tianity, all the means necessary for the restoration of -the Church.The "jre," opening out oj Christianity," of which the writers in thefollowing extracts speak, is already accomplished; and they are mostearnestly invited to consult the writings of the New Church, in which,it is confidently believed, they will find that new power, vigour, and life,which, as they anticipate, must be imparted, before the "wastes can be builded up." The first extract we shall adduce is from a distinguishedclergyman of the Church of England :- "All that I can say in this place is, that I am most firmly persuaded thatwe are living in that awful period designated in Scripture as the last time, andthe last days. Every succeeding year serves to increase the evidence on thishead, and to give clearness and precision, and intensity to those signs whichalready have been noticed by commentators. Even worldly men are 80affected by the signs of our times, as to feel seriously persuaded that sometremendous crisis is at hand. It therefore more especially behoves theprofessing people of God to be upon the watch-tower, and to ()bserve what ispassing around them, and be prepared for the future, that the day may notovertake them as a thief in the night." Another says: " As to Christianity, doubtless its action is not expended, yet must every onehave observed, that the Christian religion at present affords neither base norcircumspection to modem aspirations after moral verity. ... Mind seemsas it were to be getting loose upon space. It reposes on no religious ultimates.Those even who have the deepest, the most immovable conviction, that inrevelation is to be found the only true moral substratum of humanity through-out all its modifications, perceive, at the same time, the incommensuratene8Sof Christianity, under its present developments, to embrace and to form a restfor the new mental developments of society.c. "These believing men look for, and would promote an enlargement of thegospel faith. Whether among Hebrews, Christians, and we migllt addPagans, the mind in all ages of the world has had its moral and religiousholdings on Biblical revealed truths, more or less purely, or more or lesscorruptly conceived. It is only now that a new phenomenon seems to beemerging-ihat these holdings seem to be giving way, and that men arebecoming accustomed to question human experience at large for solutionswhich they have hitherto drawn, partially, gradually, increasingly, accordingto the proportionate progression between natural and revealed knowledge, * Elements of Propketical Interpretation, by the Rev. J. W. Brooks,. Vicar of Clareborough, p.480; 8ee also Rev. A. Clissolds End of the Ohurch., p. 00]. 17. AND NEW JBRUSALEM MAGAZINE. I~directly from religion. The result is that human nature has become to them,in all its moral aspects, a mighty riddle. " The remedy to this, on the one hand luxuriant, and on the other barrendtmoralization oC the understanding, can consist only in afre," optming out of Christianity, till it be brought into its own proper superior relationship to thespirit of the age.""Another periodical says: "Then when the spiritual had encroached upon the civil, and had becomeitself civil and secular, good men rose up against it, and bad men joinedthem; and in the struggle, religion was destroyed. With religious obligationfell also the obligation of all laws; Cor no laws have any strength but thatwhich is derived from God. And though by a providence from God, such asno other nation has experienced, something of both these obligations was oncemore established in this country over the hearts and lives of men, both wereso weakened and corrupted that religion soon gave way, and nothing buthuman and worldly considerations were left to keep men in their line of duty. " Hence our vices and faithlessness, our avarice and hard-heartedness, ourneglect of the poor beneath us ; our secularized clergy, our political dissenters,our abuse of ecclesiastical patronage; our foolish, vulgar exclusiveness, whichhas severed every class of society from those above and below it; our dis-respect to governors; our disobedience to parents; our self-indulgence, andvanity, and extravagance, which have encumbered our states with debt. * *Hence our morals degraded into utilitarianism-our philosophy becomesensualism~ur politics debased into economy -our science confined tomatter--our reason misinterpreted to mean logic-and our piety strippedfrom truth, and made matter of empty form, or of emptier feeling. W, /uzvelo,t right of the 8Jliritual, and can see nothing but the material. The Churchwas sacrificed, and nothing but the State could be seen; and now the Statealso must soon be lost."tUpon the next page of the same article, this able writer laments thedeparture of the spirit of faith, by which only the mind can grasp (ltruth;" and he declares his conviction, that, until this principle berestored, "there is no hope for his country or this age." He says: " Until the child once more looks up to its parent, and its parent to theState, and the State to the Church, and the Church to God, and still as theeye ascends through all these stages, it beholds in each a shadow and asymbol, and a presence of that power, from which all power 1l0ws-societycannot exist. It does not e:tist at present. Society is union; the union oCmany in one. If there be no union, there is no society; no mOle than thereis union in a heap oC sand. Like atoms of sand, men are now tossed together; Blaciwood. Magazine. This and the following Extracts are taken from theRev. B. F. Banetts Lecture. on the Doctrines of the New Church, New York. See-an account of the great interest excited by these Lectures, Intel. Rep. 1841, pp.139,190.t Lo1Mlon Quarterly Review for Sept., 1840-American Edition, p. 244. 18. 16 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORYhuddled in houses by the chance of birth; thrown up as in heaps into largetowns, by a thousand separate eddies-by avarice, or want, or caprice; notbound together but only not falling apart, in so-called kingdoms, becausewalls of dead matter hold them in-as mountains, rivers or seas-or a foreignforce, or the mere absence of a dissolving power; and saved from splitting offinto innumerable fragments oC "religious dissent, not because the Church is inthe centre of their affections and duty, but because their interest, or conceit, orignorance, or indolence keeps each in their place. Society, therefore, is gone.It is now lying like a long buried corpse, which the air has not yet reached,and its lineaments seem perfect, and the body sound; but if it should pleaseGod in his anger by some shock to lay it bare, it will crumble to dust. Letthe State withhold its artificial support from the Church, and, with theexception of that large portion which is beginning to be impregnated and heldtogether by a true revivifying spirit, the body, which calls itself the Church, will fall to pieces."*"These (says Mr. Barrett) are the honest confessions of honestminds. And it would be easy to fill a volume with extracts from thevarious theological and ethical writers of the day, sinlilar to these wehave just quoted. There are multitudes on both continents whosehearts respond to the sentiments here uttered. And what does thisindicate, but a pretty wide-spread acknowledgment, even among Churchmen themseives, that" the glory has departed from Israel"- that "beauty has fled from the daughter of Zion," and that "the ~bomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet" has indeed fallen upon the Church? If there be ground and reason for what these writers say concerning the Church as it now is, (and inasmuch as they are themselves fonnally connected with that Church whereof they speak, they could hardly be suspected of any disposition to state more upon this point than is clearly seen to be true,) then we can, without much difficulty, believe what Swedenborg said of the Church at the time he wrote; we can believe that the first Christian dispensation had been lived out, and that the Church established under it had consequently H come to an end-had ceased to be a true Church. CANONES NOV.LE ECCLESIA; OR, CANONS OF THENEW CHURCH THEOLOGY. (Oontinuedfrom last VoL p. 441.) To the Editor of the Intellectual Repository.DEAR SIR,I will take this opp~rtunity to say, that I was very much gratifiedwith the first communication to the Intellectual Repository for Decemberlast of an extract from the Canons of the New Church; and I hopelbid, p.245. 19. AND NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.17that your Liverpool friend will continue his communications until hehas translated the whole of this little ca,ket of geuu, of which he hasgiven us so beautiful a specimen. I am, &c.,F.G.CHAPTERVIII. - Concerning the Omnipotence, Omni,cience, and Omnipresence of God. 1. That the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of God arenot apprehended by the human understanding; because the omnipotenceof God is infin.ite power, the omniscience of God is infinite wisdom,and the omnipresence of God is infinite presenee, in all things whichhave proceeded, and which do proceed from Him; and what is divine andinfinite is not apprehended by the finite understanding. 2. That God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, is ackno~w-.ledged without a rational investigation; since this flows in from Godinto the superior region of the human mind, and hence into theacknowledgment of all who have any religion and sound reason. It alsoflows in with others who have no religion; but with them there is noreceptibn, and consequently no acknowledgment. 3. That God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, can be con-firmed from innumerable things which are of reason, and, at the sametime, of religion, as from the following:- 4. First,-That God alpne is and exists in Himself; and that everyother being, and every other thing is and C!xists fmm Him. o. Secondly,-That God alone loves, is wise, and lives and acts fromHimself; and that every other being, and every other thing lives andacts from Him. 6. Thirdly,-That God alone can act from Himself; and that everyother being, and every other thing is and acts from Him. 7. Consequently, that God is the"soul of all; from whom all beingsand all things are, live, and move.. 8. That unless all things, even to the minutest particulars in theworld and in heaven, related to one Being, who live and who acts fromHimse?f, the universe would be dissipated in a moment. 9. That hence, the universe created by God is full of God; whereforeHe Himself said that He is the "First and t1l.e .Last, the Beginning andtM End, the Alpha and the Omega, who wal, il, GAd will be, tuOm",ipotlnt." (.I1poc., &c.) 10. That the preservation of the universe, which is perpetual ereation,i~ a full testimony that God is omnipotent, omnisc~ent, and omnipresent. X.s. ~O. 37.-VOL. IV. D 20. 18 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY 11. That opposites, which are evils, are not destroyed; because Godis omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent; since evils are out ofsubj ects, and out of things created, and do Dot penetrate to divine thingswhich are within. 12. That evils, by the divine providence, which also is universal inthings most particular, are more and more removed from the interiors,cast out, and thus alienated and separated, lest they should inflict anyinjury on things internal, which are divine. 13. That the divine omnipotence is by His Humanity; that this isunderstood by sitting on the right hand, and by being the First and theLast, as is said conceming the Son of Man in the Apocalypse: andthere is the omnipotent cause, since God acts from first principles byultimates, and thus contains all things. 14. The Lord acts from first principles by ultimates with men; notby anything of man, but by His own in Him. With the Jews He actedby the Word with them, thus by His own; by that also He performedmiracles by Elias and Elisha; but because the Jews perverted the Word,God Himself came down and assumed the IDtimate, when from HimselfHe performed miracles. ID. That order was first created: according to which God acts;wherefore God made Himself Order.SUMMARY-CONCERNING GOD, THE REDEEMER JESUS CHRIST, AND CONCERNING REDEMPTION.CHAPTERI.-That in Jehovah God there are two things of the same Essence,-Divi""8 Love, and Divine Wisdom; or, Divine Good, and Divine Truth.1. That, universally and particularly, all things in both worlds,-the spiritual and the natural, relate to love and wisdom, or to goodness and truth; since God the Creator and the Author of the universe, is Love Itself, and Wisdom Itself; or Goodness Itself, and Truth Itself.2. Altogether, as all things, universaily and particularly, in man, relate to will and understanding; siDce the will is the receptacle of goodness, or love, and the understanding, of wisdom and truth.3. And also, as all things of the universe, as to existence and subsis- tance, have relation to heat and light; and heat in the spiritual world, in its essence, is love; and light there, in its essence, is wisdom; and,heat and light, in the natural world, correspond to love and wisdom in the spiritual world.4. Hence it is that all things in the Church relate to charity and faith; since charity i~ goodness, and faith is truth. 21. AND NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.19o. That, therefore, in the prophetic Word there are two expressions; one of which relates to goodness, and the other to truth; and thus to Jehovah God, who is Goodness Itself, and Truth Itself.6. That in the Word of the Old Testament J ehovah signifies the Divine Esse, which is Divine Good; and God signifies the Divine Existws, which is Divine Truth; and that J ehovah God signifies both; likewise Jesus Christ.7. That good is good, and truth is truth, in the degree and according. to the quality of their conjunction.8. That good exists by truth; consequently that truth is the form of good, and hence the quality of good. CHAPTERIT.-That JeMvah God descmdlJd as Divine Wisdom, or Divine Truth, aM assumed the Humanity in the Virgin Marg.1. That Jehovah God asswned the Humanity, that, in the fulnessof time, he might become the Redeemer and Saviour. 2. That he became the Redeemer and Saviour by righteousness, whichthen, as to His Humanity, he put on. 3. That He could not have become righteousness or justice, and thusRedeemer and Saviour, as to His Humanity, except by Divine Truth. 4. Since by Divine Truth, from the beginning, all things were Inade,which are Inade. 0. That Divine Truth could combat against the hells, also could be tempted, blasphemed, reproached, and suffer. 6. But not Divine Good, neither God, except in the human principle,conceived and born accoJ;"ding to Divine Order. 7. That Jehovah God thus descended as Divine Truth, ana. assumedthe Humanity. 8. That this is according to Sacred Scripture" and according to reasonillustrated from it. CHAPTER III.-That this DiDift8 Trv,th is 1J,nder,tood by the Word llJk~h wa, made Flesh. (John i.)1. That the Word, in the Sacred Scripture, signifies various things j as that it signifies the thing which really exists; also the thought of the mind, and thence speech. 2. That in the first place it signifies everything which exists and pro- ~ from the mouth of God-; thus Divine Truth; thus the Sacred Scripture, since there is divine truth in its essence and its fonn. From UUs eil!eu,mstaDce it is, that the Sacred Script~e, with one expression, ~ called the WORD. 22. 20 THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY 3. That the ten Words (Commandments) of the Deca10gue signifyall the divine truths in a summary. 4. That the Word hence signifies the Lord the ~edeemer andSaviour, since all things there are from Him; thus Himself. 6. That from these things it can be seen, that by the Word, which wasin the beginning with God, and which was God, and which was withpod before -the world, is understood the divine truth which was beforecreation in J ehovah, and after creation from J ehovah, and lastly theDivine Humanity which Jehovah assumed in time; for it is said thatthe Word was made flesh, that, is man. 6. That the hypostatic Word is nothing else than divine truth.CHAPTER IV.-That th~ Holy Spirit which came over Nary signifies the Divine Truth; and that the power of the Most High, whicl" o~ershadowed her, signifies the Divine Good from which tn,at exists. I. That the Holy Spirit is the divine proceeding, thus the divinetruth, teaching, reforming, regenerating, and vivifying. 2. That the divine truth, which also is the Word, was in the Lordby nativity from conception; and that afterwards He had it "withoutmeasure," that is, that it was infinitely increased, is understood by theSpirit of J ehovah resting upon Him. 3. That this is the divine truth which J ehovah God sPake by theprophets, and which the Lord Himself spake whilst he was in the world. 4. That the spirit of J ehovah is called the :Qoly Spirit, since what isholy in the Word is predicated of divine truth. Hence it is that the Humanity of the Lord born of Mary is called Holy. (Luke i.) And that the Lord Himself is called alone Holy; (Apoc.) and that othersare called Holy, not from themselves, but from Him. 0. That the Most High in the Word is predicated of the divinegood, wherefore the power of the Most High signifies power proceed-I ing from the divine good. 6. That thus those two things, the Holy Spirit coming over her, and the power of the Most High overshadowing her, signifying both, viz., divine truth and divin~ good; the latter being the ~ul,and the former the body, and hence communication.7. Consequently, that those two in the Lord recently born were dis":tinct, as are soul and body, and afterwards united.8. It is similar in man, who is born and afterwards regenerated..CHAPTBR V.-Tkat tke Humanity of tke Lord JekovaA is hi SDAof God lent into tlu UJorld. 1. That Jehovah God sent Himself into the world by assuming the Humanity. 23. AND NEW JHRU8ALHII MAGAZINE. 212. That this Humanity, conceived from Jehovah God, it ealled theSon of God which was sent into the world. 3. That this Humanity is called the Son of God, and the Son ofMan; the Son of God, from the divine truth and divine good in Him,which is the Word; and the Son of Man, from the divine truth anddivine good from Him, which is the doctrine of the church from theWord. 4. That no other Son of God is understood in the Word, but Hewho was born in the world. 0. That a Son of God bom from eternity, who is a God by himself,is not from the Sacred Scripture; and that it is also contrary to reasonillustrated by God. 6. That this was invented and propagated by the Nicene Council, asan asylum, to which those who wished to avoid the scandals disseminatedby Arius and his followers, concerning the Humanity of the Lord,could betake themselves. 7. That the primitive church, which is called the Apostolic Church, kn~w nothing concerning the birth of any Son of God from eternity.(To be continued.)THE DEAD LA1TGUAGES.To the Editor of tlte Intellectual Repository.SIR,Not being able to see the drift of PANIOTAS remarks in yourNovember number, I am unable to reply to them. He affirms that Iam tt somewhere mistaken;" but his attempts to prove it are moresingular than convincing. I purposely avoid saying more than this,that I have no doubt he will feel less satisfied with his observations at afuture period than he does at present;. and possibly may wish that hisprofession of good-humour had been less necessary, in order to con-vince me of its existence. Before I had read the paper allude NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.71ister, I made known my wish tu one ofwith which we were Inutually delightedthe Hoxton friends, and was at onceand edified. Here I was introduced tomost cordially invited to take tea with atwo warm- hearted recipients from theparty of them on the Tuesday following.small town of Wivenhoe, about five milesOn the Monday e)fjing I was informeddistant, who earnestly entreated me toof their desire to have a lecture after thevisit them, and deliver a lecture there,tea. I was most affectionately receivedwhich I promised to do the next Wed-by about twenty New Church friends,nesday.to none of whom, with one exception, I On Saturday, my very kind friend,believe I had ever been personally intro-Mr. John Griggs, of Brightlingsea,duced before, and who live too far off brought a pony chaise to conduct meconstantly to attend the services of our there, where I safely arrived, and wasother Churches. They informed me thatmost affectionately welcomed by the in-in the summer, they had not less thantelligent and cordial receivers of theeighty scholars in attendance. I was Heavel1l.y Doctrines of the New Churchmach delighted with their unanimity, in Brightlingsea. I had ofWn read andand their desire to be useful. I encour- heard of them with interest, and f~t aged their exertions, directed their atten- towards them, though unknown, no com- tion to the necessity of discipline and mon affection; it was therefore a source order, and above all, urged them to teach of sincere delight that I had now the Divine Truth, not only with their lips, opportunity of making their personal but in their lives. After tea, I delivered acquaintance, and I believe that delight the lecture, "On the true nature and cha-was reciprocated by all. On Sunday racter of the Word of God," to a crowded morning, November 6, I administered and attentive audience. The ~xpressiolls the sacrament of baptism to two adults of thankfulness for the visit which wereand several children. Afterwards, agree- uttered at the time, and have since beenably to my desire, Mr. J. W. Wynn, communicated in a letter to me, convincethe candidate for ordina.tion, preached a me that my exertions were not in vainvery pleasing discourse from the 6th Matt. , Your zeal and affection were manifest," v.3. I then administered the sacramentsays the writer, "in your visit to the of the Lords Supper to upwards of twentyshepherdless sheep of Hoxton. The sipcommunicants, and we experienced afrom the sacred fountain, we in mercyrich feast of peace, and love, and joy inwere allowed to receive by your pastoral "the marriage supper of the I,amb."care, has set several in activitv to deliver In the afternoon the neat little Churchlectures, a.nd invite all to com~. Eternal belonging to the Society was filled, toand infinite were the truths you so clearly witness the ordination of Mr. Wynn.delivered to 80 attentive an audience,It proved a solemn, but highly-interest-and we must wait the Lords good timeing and truly delightful season to all.to see the seed shOot forth, the trees The beautiful and appropriate ser-spring up, and the branches bearing their vice appointed for that occasion, waseverlasting fnlit. How can we be suffi- never listened to with more profound ciently grateful, and how express theattention. Both the Minister and histhankfulness of our souls for your visit! dock appeared to perceiTe and feel the We must cultivate the kindly feeling, momentous nature of the covenant, which and follow after our adorable Saviour and Redeemer God, by abhorring all evils as sins against him, and moreLord Jesus, and the angels0was then ratified in the presence of the heayen ;and even strangers who were present ex- closely directing the end of our affectionspressed their great satisfaction. In the to the advancement of his spiritual king-evening a large congregation again assem- dom in ourselves and in others." bled, when I delivered the charge to theOn Thursday, November 3rd, I left newly-ordained Minister and his Society;London for Colchester, and was met by and I have reason to hope that the sacredour worthy friend Mr. U. W. Mattacks, services of that day strengthened ourthe respected leader of the Society there. Faith and increased our Love, and over-No previous arrangements having beenthrew D1Bny plejudices and difficulties inmade, I expressed an earnest wish tothe minds of others.meet a few of our friends on the eveningOn Monday evening, November 7th,of Friday, November 4th, when I deli-I had the gratification of meeting avered a discourse from 17th chap. Inumber of the members at the houseSamuel, 40th v. After the sermon weof Mr. J. Griggs. Afterwards, agreeablyengaged in an interesting conYersation,to previous announcement, I delivered a 74. 72THE INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORYlecture to a very numerous congregation,Holy Spirit, and that the J.ord Jesus"On the laws according to which the Christ is that God." It was also furtherWord of Divine Inspiration is written,stated, at the bottom of the bill, "thataud can alone be interpreted;" and re-the lecturer would answer any questionsplied to the leading sceptical objections upon the subject of le lecture after theurged against the sacred volume. At service."This being the first time athe close of the lecture, which occupiedlecture on the Doctrines of the New Dis-about an hour and a half, I was solicited pensation had been delivered in this littleto state the progress and prospects oC thetown, it occasioned no inconsiderable ex-New Church throughout the world, to-citement. Before I had arrived, the pro-gether with the discipline and orderprietors of the room had positively for-established in the larger Societies. This bidden the use of it for the occasion. Itaddress occupied another hour and a was at once relinquished. In this un-half, and I shall never forget the enthu- forseen difficulty, a large kitchen wassiasm oC satisfaction which seemed to obtained, capable of accommodating pro-pervade the entire assembly. They ap- bably eighty individuals, and a friend waspeared reluctant to separate. stationed at the room to direct the people On Tuesday, Nov. 8th, I visited thethither. I expected to meet a few per-Society at 81. Osyth, seven miles distant,sons to tea at the house of one of ourby land, from 13rightlingsea. Mr. W. H. friends; what was, therefore, myaston-Griggs is the intelligent and affectionatement, when, notwithstanding a most UD-leader of this Society. To my surprisefavourable state oC the weather, I foundand delight, I found most unexpectedlythat nearly twenty friends had arrivedthat a considerable number of our goodfrom Brightlingsea and Colchester, andfriends from Blightlingsea, Wivenhoe,one gentleman from Melford, a distanceand Colchester had determined to meet of about tirenty miles. We bad a largeme. About thirty of us sat down to tea. and interesting tea meeting at the inn. IHere I gave a lecture on "the Signs delivered the lecture to as many as theof the Times," as indicative of the pro-room would hold. I afterwards invitedbability and certainty that the Lord wasthose present to ask any question on thenow actually accomplishing the propheticsubject I had discoursed upon, accordingpredictions oC his Second Advent. The to the announcement; but not an enquirycongregation was good, indeed, much was made. One of the hearers observed,larger than I had been led to anticipate, "that the lecturer had, as he thought,and heard the lecture with earnest atten- answered every difficulty, and left nothingtion. I was afterwards publicly requested to which anyone could object." Beforeto repeat at least a part of the extem-we separated, I stated that we had a fewporal address of the preceding evening. Tracts for distribution among those whoWith this request I willingly complied, were anxious to read them; and theyvarying it so as better to suit the occasion, were all instantly and eagerly applied for.and, in my closing exhortation, dwellingThis opening of the New Church waschielly on the necessity of cultivating exceedingly auspicious; many prejudicasorder and harmony, of establishing dis- were removed, and I was afterwards toldcipline in the Society, and, above all, of. that another lecture or two would becherishing p~rsonal religion by the lovecrowded. One of the ministers in theand practice of truth and goodness and atown was alarmed, and on the succeedinglife fille~ up with acts of usefulness. I Sunday prtached a serD;lon in oppositionbade farewell to this affectionate little to our views, and took occasion to find sadSociety, who were exceedingly thankfulfault with those of his hearers who werefor the visit, and we arri~d home about present with us. But it was said bymidnight. several that" he condemned what he did On Wednesday, Nov. 9th, according to not understand, and that before he pre-my promise, I proceeded to Wivanhoe,sumed to pass judgment, he ought toabout five miles from Brightlingsea, wherehave heard the lecture himself." I nowour kind friends most anxiously awaited took another affectionate leave or ourmy arrival. A school-rpom had beenfriends from a distance. My formerengaged, and it was announced, by printed companion, Mr. John Griggs, made uphand-bills, that I should lecture" On the his mind to accompany me throughoutLeading Doctrine of the New Jerusalem the remaind~r of my journey, and onChurch; viz., that God is one person, Thursday, November H)th, I left theand not three persons, in whom oentreskind friends at Wi venhoe, who expressedthe Divine Trinity of Father, Son, andthe most sincere thanks for my visit, and .. 75. AND NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE. 73 we proceeded together; first to Colchester,prett~ full and most attentive congrega.. accompanied by our Melford friend, tion. On Monday evening, Nov. 13th, where I made arrangements with Mr. I met the friends to tea, when we had Mattaoks for the delivery of a lecturesome useful conversation, and I after- the following week.,md thence to Ipswich.wards gave a lecture, " On the Sanctity I made immediate preparation, throughand Divinity of the Word of God," tile medium of Mr. Smith, to meet thewhich was exceedingly well received, and receivers of our glorious doctrines on made a deep impression upon several. Friday evening, Nov. 11th, in their usual In the course of the day hand-bills weremteting-room in Crown-street. I found circulated, .announcing the delivery of athem few in number, but firm, affec- lecture the next evening, "On the Se-tionate, and intelligent. Two ladies and cond Advent of J ehovah, and the descenta gentleman came all. the way from of the New J emsalem," at an eligibleBrightlingsea to be present, in the ex-room in Tacket-street, well fitted up, andpectation of hearing a discourse; but we capable of accommodating about twowere compelled to make it only a prelimi-hundred persons. Though it rainednary meeting. After we had decided heavily all day, on Tuesday, Nov. 14th,respecting the future services, I urgedyet the room was filled with a highlythem to form themselves into a Society,respectable audience. The lecture occu-and for this purpose proposed the admi-pied about two hours, and was listened tonistration of the Sacraments, to which throughout with intense and unabatedall agreed. Sunday morning, Nov. 12th, interest. I stated that there were a fewproved stormy, and it rained all day Tracts on some of the important sub-without intermission. I t was deemed jects, to which I had directed their atten-prudent to announce publicly the lasttion, which would be given to such aslecture only, as a suitable roam could desired a better acquaintance with ournot be engaged before Tuesday, so that views. There was a rush of applicants,we had very few present at the servicesand I was extremely grieved that webesides such as were receivers or favour-had so few, as owing to some mis-able to our views. I preached a preli- arrangement, I had none with me duringminary sermon from 6th Matt., the firstmy journey, except such as our friendsclause of the ]Oth verse. Soon after wehappened to possess. The hearers after-had commenced service two zealous gen- wards gathered in groups, and severaltlemen from Wivenhoe unexpectedlywere heard to express their wonder andjoined os; and our worship, I hope and satisfaction at the great truths which hadbelieve, was the sincere worship of grate- been proclaimed. Our bosoms wereful hearts. I briefly explained the nature animated with life and joy. We badeof Church Fellowship, and the uses and our I pswich friends farewell, and onprivileges of the Holy Sacraments. InWednesday, Nov. 15th, we returned tothe aftemoon we again assembled, and I Colchester.had the great satisfaction of introducingHere Mr. Mattacks had exerted histwelve adults and four children into the energies to obtain a congregation for thefaith and life of the New Jerusalem by evening. It had been announced bythe only orderly door of admission, thehand-bills that I should lecture on "theordinance of Baptism. The congrega-Signs of the Times," "the accomplish-tion then withdrew, and twelve of us ment of Prophecy,U "the Second Adventsat down at the Lords Table, and par- of J ehovah," and ." the Descent of thetook of the Holy Supper. It was to usNew Jerusalem ;" and I added a brief all "a feast of fat things, an4i of wines reply to some of the most popular objec-on the lees well refined." We expe-tions with which the Christianity of therienced an inward union oC soul and aNew Jerusalem and her professors havedescent of strengthening and refreshingbeen assailed. It was stated at the Cootinduences from our Heavenly Father,of the bill, that any person would be atthe Lord Jesus Christ. We felt, that liberty to ask any questions at the con- according to his own gracious pr