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Excerpt from The Gospel According to John
The general design of the following pages is to illustrate the divine declaration of jesus christ to His disciples, where He says, The words that I speak unto you are spirit, and are life, John vi. 63, by pointing out more distinctly what is to be understood by the spirit and life which replenish and constitute the words of the great saviour, and by thus en deavouring to supply the reader with a just idea of the proper discriminate marks and characters of those two grand essen tials of Divine Inspiration and Revelation, called Spirit and Life. In connection with this general design is also a particular one, resulting from the above declaration of the incarna'i'e god, respecting the constituent principles of His most holy words, and resolving itself into these three several points 5 - 1 st, To demonstrate the sanctity and divinity of the inspired writings, and in what that sanctity and divinity con sist, as manifested in the above divine declaration, The words that I speak unto you are Spirit and are life. 2ndly, To prove the high authority stamped on the theological writ ings of Swedenborg, in consequence of their hearing so faith ful and luminous a testimony to that sanctity and divinity so manifested; and 3rdly, To exhibit the sublimity, purity, and edifying tendency of that rule of doctrine and of life, which will be found in the extracts from the above writings, as col lected in the following work.
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