Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURE, OR THE WORD. 249. Max, without a Revelation from the Divine, cannot know anything concerning eternal life, nor indeed anything concerning God, and still less concerning love to and faith in Him. For a man is born into mere ignorance; and then from worldly things he must learn all the things from which he will Jform his understanding. He is also born hereditarily into all evil, which is from the love of self and of the world. The enjoyments therefrom reign continually, and suggest such things as are diametrically against the Divine. Hence then it is, that man knows nothing of eternal life: there must therefore necessarily be a Revelation, from which he may know. 250. That the evils of the love of self and the world induce such ignorance of the things which are of eternal life, is plainly manifest from those within the church, who -- although they know from revelation that there is a God, that there is a heaven and a hell, that there is eternal life, and that that life is to be procured by the good of love and of faith -- still fall into the denial of them, as well the 86 learned as the unlearned. Hence it is again manifest, how great ignorance there would be, if there were no Revelation. 251. Since, therefore, man lives after death, and then to eternity, and a life awaits him according to his love and faith, it follows that the Divine has, from love towards the human race, revealed such things as will lead to that life, and conduce to his salvation. What the Divine has revealed is with us the Word. 252. The Word, because it is a revelation from the Divine, is divine in each and every thing; for what is from the Divine cannot be otherwise. That which is from the Divine, descends through the Heavens...
