The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church Foretold by the Lord in Daniel VII. 13, 14; and in Revelation XXI. 1, 2

Emanuel Swedenborg

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912 - New Jerusalem Church - 1098 pages

Contents

• God and that He is one п 57: 5
• THE DIVINE BEING WHICH IS JEHOVAH: 27
• THE INFINITY OF GOD OR HIS IMMENSITY AND ETERNITY: 38
• THE DIVINE ESSENCE WHICH IS DIVINE LOVE AND DIVINE WISDOM: 56
• THE OMNIPOTENCE OMNISCIENCE AND OMNIPRESENCE OF: 78
• THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE: 106
• CHAPTER II: 123
• iv The Human whereby God sent Himself into the world is: 134
• vi Through the same acts the Lord united Himself to the Father: 140
• ii Good and truth: 148
• CHAPTER III: 213
• THE DIVINE TRINITY: 250
• CHAPTER IV: 287
• SENSE OF THE LETTER OF THE WORD AND CONFIRMED THERE: 320
• BY MEANS OF THIS SENSE OF THE LETTER OF THE WORD THERE: 326
• THE CHURCH IS FROM THE WORD AND WITH MAN IT IS SÚCH: 332
• HERESIES MAY BE DRAWN FROM THE SENSE OF THE LETTER: 341
• BEFORE THE WORD THAT IS NOW IN THE WORLD THERE WAS: 351
• IF THERE WERE NO WORD THERE WOULD BE NO KNOWLEDGE: 357
• CHAPTER V: 373
• THE SECOND COMMANDMENT Thou shalt not take the name: 385
• iii Love in general: 394
• Thou shalt not kill n 309312: 395
• iv Love of self and love of the world in particular n 400: 400
• Thou shalt not bear false wit: 402
• Thou shalt not covet: 404
• CHAPTER VI: 425
• MAN ACQUIRES FAITH BY GOING TO THE LORD LEARNING TRUTHS: 437
• from man but from the Lord alone: 449
• THE LORD CHARITY AND FAITH MAKE ONE LIKE LIFE WILL: 456
• iv But the man who divides the Lord charity and faith is not: 462
• CHARITY AND FAITH ARE TOGETHER IN GOOD WORKS n 373377: 510
• THESE THREE LOVES WHEN RIGHTLY SUBORDINATED PERFECT: 525
• GREATER AND THE COMPOSITE MAN FORMED OF COMMUNI: 533
• CHARITY ITSELF IS ACTING JUSTLY AND FAITHFULLY IN: 540
• THE DIVERSIONS OF CHARITY ARE DINNERS SUPPERS AND: 547
• WHEN A MORAL LIFE IS ALSO SPIRITUAL IT IS CHARITY: 557
• CHAPTER VIII: 589
• MAN IS NOT LIFE BUT A RECEPTACLE OF LIFE FROM: 596
• IT IS CLEARLY MANIFEST FROM THAT PERMISSION OF EVIL: 604
• WITHOUT FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN SPIRITUAL THINGS THERE: 611
• EVERYTHING SPIRITUAL OF THE CHURCH THAT ENTERS MAN: 618
• THE LORD IMPUTES GOOD TO EVERY MAN AND HELL IMPUTES: 650
• THE CONTRITION WHICH AT THE PRESENT DAY IS SAID TO PRE: 651
• MAN IS BORN WITH AN INCLINATION TO EVILS OF EVERY KIND: 657
• ACTUAL REPENTANCE IS EXAMINING ONESELF RECOGNIZING: 664
• ACTUAL REPENTANCE IS EASY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOW: 675
• CHAPTER X: 694
• SINCE ALL HAVE BEEN REDEEMED ALL MAY BE REGENERATED: 700
• THE FIRST ACT IN THE NEW BIRTH IS CALLED REFORMATION: 708
• WHEN THIS TAKES PLACE A CONFLICT ARISES BETWEEN THE: 715
• REGENERATION IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT TRUTHS BY WHICH: 732
• CHAPTER XI: 749
• THE FAITH IMPUTATIVE OF CHRISTS MERIT WAS UNKNOWN: 757
• THERE IS AN IMPUTATION BUT IT IS AN IMPUTATION OF GOOD: 764
• FAITH WITH THAT TO WHICH IT IS CONJOINED IS WHAT DETER: 773
• THE NATURE OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD n 792795: 792
• CHAPTER XII: 797
• THE FIRST USE OF BAPTISM IS INTRODUCTION INTO THE CHRIS: 805
• THE THIRD USE OF BAPTISM WHICH IS THE FINAL USE IS THAT: 811
• LUTHER MELANCTHON AND CALVIN IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD: 812
• WHEN ALL THIS IS UNDERSTOOD ANY ONE CAN COMPREHEND THAT: 854
• THOSE COME TO THE HOLY SUPPER WORTHILY WHO HAVE FAITH: 861
• THE PRESENT IS THE LAST TIME OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: 906
• THIS NIGHT IS FOLLOWED BY A MORNING WHICH IS THE COMING: 913
• THIS COMING OF THE LORD WHICH IS HIS SECOND COMING: 920
• THIS SECOND COMING OF THE LORD IS EFFECTED BY MEANS OF: 927
• THIS NEW CHURCH IS THE CROWN OF ALL THE CHURCHES THAT: 934
• THE DUTCH IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD n 800805: 951
• THE GERMANS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD n 813816: 958
• THE POPISH SAINTS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD n 822827: 964
• THE AFRICANS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD ALSO SOMETHING: 971
• THE FRIENDSHIP OF LOVE AMONG THE EVIL IS INTESTINE: 1053
• TO THOSE WHO WORTHILY COME TO THE HOLY SUPPER IT: 1062

Popular passages

Page 575 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Page 215 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever ; even the Spirit of truth ; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him ; but ye know him ; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless : I will come to you.

Page 340 - ... in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness ; the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride...

Page 173 - For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Page 475 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man who built his house upon the sand ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell ; and great was the fall of it.

Page 562 - Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Page 252 - The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Page 404 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

Page 719 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Page 288 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church Foretold by the Lord in Daniel VII. 13, 14; and in Revelation XXI. 1, 2
• Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 5, 2007
• Length: 1098 pages