Tracts for the New Times, Issues 1-2J. Allen, 1847 |
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139 NASSAU-STREET according to Swedenborg adjudge heresy affirms allegation aristocracy baptism charity children's earthly Chris Christian Church Church of Christ claim clergy coming church corruptions DECENCY YET HAUNTS denborg denies destitute Divine Humanity divine right divine truth doctrine earth ecclesiastical ence evils of Christendom exalt exclusive fact of self-love faith HARVARD COLLEGE HATH I FEAR HAUNTS US.-JOHN MILTON heart and lungs heaven heresy and schism human mind human progress individual aggrandizement infidelity influence intellect internal acknowledgment involved JOHN ALLEN justification by faith laity LEFT A SLAVISH LINEN DECENCY Lord merely professional institution nature neighbor never numbers opinion OUTWARD CONFORMITY LEFT Pagan pathy political Providential public worship question regenerate relation rience Romish sectarianism sentiment separatism SLAVISH PRINT social soul sphere spirit spiritual Christianity SWEDENBORG NO SWEDENBORGIAN SWEDENBORG'S IDEA thing tian tical tion titular church true church unity universal vidual virtue wholly word YOKE OF OUTWARD
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Page 1 - In ascending to the great principles upon which all society rests," said Justice Joseph Story, in 1828, "it must be admitted that there are some which are of eternal obligation, and arise from our common dependence upon our Creator. Among these are the duty to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God.
Page 15 - ... indeed you were visibly distinguished from all other men by the possession of goodness and truth, or the true faith of the Divine Humanity, then you would have some show of reason in claiming our visual acknowledgment of you as the church. " The universal of faith on man's part," says Swedenborg, " is that he should confide in the Lord's salvation ; and because none can so confide but he who leads a good life, therefore this is also implied in believing on him.
Page 18 - And finally you see it still further modified by subjection to the national bond, which brings the individual into unity not only with all his fellow townsmen, but with all his fellow countrymen. This is our present civilization. Thus you see the individual unit expanding successively into the family and tribal unity, into the municipal unity, and finally into the national unity. Its great final development into the unity of the race, is what remains for us to see ; that development which shall make...
Page 18 - This is our present civilization. Thus you see the individual unit expanding successively into the family and tribal unity, into the municipal unity, and finally into the national unity. Its great final development into the unity of the race, is what remains for us to see ; that development which shall make all the nations of the earth one society, or one united family, when a man shall love and serve not his own nation merely, but all the nations of the earth, when in a word his sympathies shall...
Page 16 - Swedenborg shows, • has ever been coextensive with the human race. Whosoever lives a life of charity — I do not mean a life of almsgiving, nor a technically devout life, but a really humane life, by the conscientious avoidance of whatever wrongs the neighbor — is ipso facto a member of that church, though he himself have never heard the name of Christ.
Page 10 - For it is the peculiarity of what is called " evangelical religion," to deaden men's sympathies for the actual and present ills of humanity, in favor of their possible future ills ; and so to neutralize much of the energy which would otherwise have been available for the mitigation of human suffering.
Page 21 - It does not bid the natural mind revoke all history in order to reascend to its primal celestial conditions : it reproduces these celestial conditions themselves, in natural forms. It no longer exalts the inward or real, at the expense of the outward or actual ; 'it proves the one to be an every way fit and indispensable exponent, basis and continent of the other.
Page 21 - Divine to the Human, and the unition of the Human with the Divine. Thus the church reconciles the hitherto unmanageable fact of self-love with the unimpeded operation of divine laws ; with the great ends of creative love and wisdom.
Page 10 - It is essentially antisocial. It cares only for its own soul. The ameliorating progress of science accordingly in late years has met with nothing but obstruction from the progress of so called