The apocalypse revealed : in which are disclosed the mysteries there foretold : being a translation of his work entitled Apocalypsis revelata / by Emanuel Swedenborg.

  • Emmanuel Swedenborg
Date:
1890
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Credit: The apocalypse revealed : in which are disclosed the mysteries there foretold : being a translation of his work entitled Apocalypsis revelata / by Emanuel Swedenborg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ X. On the Church. That the Church is the congregation and communion of saints, and that it is dispersed over the whole world among those who have the same Christ and the same Holy Spirit, and the same sacraments, whether they have similar or dissimilar traditions ; and that it is principally a society of faith; and that this Church alone is the body of Christ, and that the good are both really and nominally a Church, but the wicked only nominally; that the wicked and hypocrites, because they are intermixed, are members of the church according to its exter- nal signs, provided they are not excommunicated, but that they are not members of the body of Christ. That ecclesiastical rites, which are called ceremonies, are matters of indifference, and that they are not the worship of God, nor a part of the worship of God; that therefore the Church is at liberty to institute, change, and abrogate them, as, for instance, the distinctions of vestments, times, days, meats, and the like; and that therefore one church ought not to condemn another on account of things of this nature.” These, in a compendious form, are the doctrines of the Ee- formed Church and Eeligion ; but those taught by the Schwenk- feldians, Pelagians, Manichseans, Donatists, Anabaptists, Armi- nians, Zuinglians, Anti-Trinitarians, Socinians, Arians, and, at this day, by the Quakers and Moravians, are passed over, because these are reprobated and rejected by the Eeformed Church as heretics.
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