The doctrine of the new Jerusalem concerning the Lord

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the churchis earth, declining Do true love and charity falis into the love of self and the Orid, and as Sumes consequent false principies of religion still retaining the emblance of a ChurCh, the world of spirit hecomes crowded, illi Such asare in Wardi Wiche acto thei enas of lise, hil stthe assume appe rances of good an Such, forVarious reasonN, Cunnoti immediatet consigneato thei final ahocles 1 ence the continue in C PCaSing in number, infestin the goo in that state, and interceptin thereby the influxis divine goocland truth, in iis descento me on arili untiΙ the end of the church, hen evil egins O Pre- ponderate, an to threaten a tota destruction. For the in os man is in connexion illi that Worid, nil the reedom of his in de penus uponthe equilibrium o good an evi incit To Preserve this equilibrium, heres ore, and thus thei reedom of the human minit, he through the Prevalence of evit, it is in clange of hein des- troyed a last udgmen is essected by the descent of tii Lordis the Son of man, i. e. by a more PO -erfui manifestation an descent of divine trutti, Where by the evi are exploret, separate 1 and castdown the good perfecte an elevated the uisma mini preserve in a statem liberi an rationality, and a Way thus prepared O the instauration Ofa ne church, through a reception Osne Orclers of heavenly good an truth rom the Loi d. O this judgment, a performe in the SPiritual orid, our author declares himself to

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is in every one' poWer, ho destres it tobe enlightened, and iste With genuinowisdom : ut o this subjeci more ma beseen in the wor concernin Heaven and Heli n. 589 to 596, and n. 59 to 603; also in a malloreatis concerning the Last Iud ent n. 65 to 72, undi. 73 74.

That by the Veis Ierusalem in the Foc

alypse is understoo a ners hvrch. 62. A PTER Je state os the christianchurch is described in the Apocalypse, Whatit ould e at iis en or Consummation, and what it no is an aster thos os the hiarch, ho are meant by the salse prophet, the dragon the whore, and thebeaSis, ere cast into heli; and thus aster the las judgment Was accompsislied itis sal therein, sam a ne heaven

ness, and has describe in fame in a Work, e litted De Ultimo Judicio, o CONCERNINO THELAST JUDaΜΕΝΤ, the realit of hicli e there Proves abundanti Dom scripture, and confirms byrationa arguments the sum is also ait confirmed by correspondent essecis tining place in thenatural Worid, hicli the compassis a note ilino admit tot adduced.

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no meant a ne Starr an atmospherical heaven or Such as appear bes ore the

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as is visibi to the odily yes, o os anearili habitable by men By the spiritualWorid is here meant that orid hicli sthe abod os anget an spiriis, and by the natural worid that hicli is the abo deos en That a ne clivi Oh has been lately establislied in the spiritual orid, and that a ne one ill e stablishod in

the natural Gorid, is hown in Severat pa Sage os the reatis concerning the Last

SCending out os eaven rom God sorthe doctrine os genuine truth is derive dsrom no the origin than rom the Lord through heaven. And whereas that Church, a tociis doctrine is signified by the itythe o Jurusalem, it is heres ore Sald, prepared asinari de adorned sor herius baud. V Ver 2 and asterivariis, here

Came tanto me ne os the even angelS,

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Jerusalem, descendi glutis heaven romGod. V Vorse 9, 10 in the Same Chapter.

64. The reason wh by Jerusalem intho ord is understoo the church a Iodoctrine is, ecause a Jerusalem, in theland of Canaan, an in no Other place, there a the temple and the altar, and the offering os sacrifices con Sequently the celebrationis divine orshim: heres realso three early estivat were there Celebrat ed, at hieli ver male os the whololand was require est be present; rom his circumstanc it is, that by Jerusalem is signified the chur l, as io orShip and ConSequently also a to doctrines sor or- Shil is proscribe in doctrine, and performe a cording there tori nother ORSOnWas, ecause the Lord wa in Jerusalem,

an taught in his temple, an aster ardS

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ehurch is that hicli is signised by the

mountain. V Xv. 17, 18, 19, 25. This hapter algo reat concerning the Comingos the Lord, and the clitarch that a to

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t create a ne heaven an a ne earth,

by hich also the like things are signised.; it is also a id that Jerusalem a to ecreate d. o again in Isaiah, Howake,aWalie, ut o thy Strength, o Zion, puton thy beautis ut armenis, Gerusalem, the oly ityri or there hali no more come in to the the uncircumcised, and the unclean; halio thyseis koin the ust; aris an sit down, o Jerusalem mypeople hallono in nam in that day,

hath redeomed Jerusalem. V lii. I, 2 6 9. This Chapter also reat concerning the comin os the Lord, and the church to beo stablishod by him : heres ore, by that Jerusalem into hicli the uncircumcise dand uncte an Should o more enter, and

whichahe Lord should redeum is signified

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is evident, ecause his a restore Dand