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THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

GENERAL REVIEW.

VOL. XXIV.

THIRD SERIES, VOLUME VI.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

LONDON:

R. J. KENNETT, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1838.

CP. 26.10

CP. 26.10

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:

METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.

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THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

No. LXXXV.

THIRD SERIES-No. XVI.

MARCH, 1838.

ART. I.-1. Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, with some Account of his Writings, together with a brief Notice of the Rise and Progress of the New Church. Boston: Allen & Goddard. 2. Biographie Universel. Vol. XLIV. Article, SWEDENborg. 3. Letters to the Members of the New Jerusalem Church. By DR. PRIESTLEY.

4. Reply to Dr. Priestley's Letters. BY ROBERT HIND

MARSH.

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SWEDENBORG claimed to be a divinely appointed interpreter of the Scriptures, the bearer of a new revelation, and for a long course of years he professed to hold free intercourse with the spiritual world. From his visits there he has purposed to give us revelations of God, of the human soul, and of its eternal condition after death, infinitely surpassing in definiteness and extent all that has been taught by Jesus Christ and his apostles. A thorough investigation of his claims would embrace necessarily a multitude of moral, historical, and metaphysical questions, which of course cannot be discussed here. It will be well for us to be on our guard against so identifying the several parts and bearings of a broad subject, as to make the only issue of the whole inquiry to be the truth or the falsity of the whole. Kant said in relation to the subject before us, that "the prejudice which rejects without reason the whole of a relation which is brought forward with some degree of plausibility, is just as absurd as the prejudice which receives without

VOL. XXIV. 3D S. VOL. VI. NO. I.

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