A life of Emanuel Swedenborg, with a popular exposition of his philosophical and theological teachings

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Página 18 - If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema, Maran-atha.
Página 150 - Self was obnoxious, and good works he had none, for it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do.
Página 161 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Página 96 - I have there been instructed concerning different kinds of spirits, and the state of souls after death — concerning hell, or the [lamentable state of the unfaithful — concerning heaven, or the most happy state of the faithful — and particularly concerning the doctrine of faith which is acknowledged throughout all heaven ; on which subjects, by the Divine mercy of the Lord, more will be said in the following pages.
Página 11 - The Eighteenth was a Sceptical Century ; in which little word there is a whole Pandora's Box of miseries. Scepticism means not intellectual Doubt alone, but moral Doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis. Perhaps, in few centuries that one could specify since the world began, was a life of Heroism more difficult for a man. That was not an age of Faith, — an age of Heroes ! The very possibility of Heroism had been, as it were, formally abnegated in the minds of ail. Heroism...
Página 172 - There's not a flower of spring That dies ere June but vaunts itself allied By issue and symbol, by significance And correspondence, to that spirit-world Outside the limits of our space and time • Whereto we are bound.
Página 96 - Lord's divine mercy, it has been granted me, now for several years, to be constantly and uninterruptedly in company with spirits and angels, hearing them converse with each other, and conversing with them. Hence, it has been permitted me to hear and see things in another life which are astonishing, and which have never before come to the knowledge of any man, nor entered into his imagination.
Página 129 - Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Página 230 - The merchant took his leave and despatched his business. Some days after, he went again to Swedenborg, in anxious expectation. The old gentleman met him with a smile, and said, ' I have spoken with your friend ; the subject of your discourse was, the restitution of all things.
Página 170 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...

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