Excerpt from An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State, and the Doctrines of Faith and Life, Held by the Body of Christians Who Believe That a New Church, Is Signified (in the Revelation, Chapter XXL) By the New Jerusalem: Embracing Answers to All Principal Objections

In the present Edition, as little as possible of the personal matter respecting the Rev. Mr. Beaumont, whose publication, intitled The anti-swedenborg, originally occasioned the compo sitiou of this work, has been retained. But the work being framed, as a principal Object, to meet the common arguments and Objections against the New Church, in the form in which those arguments and objections are stated in the anti-swe denborg, it was neither possible, nor desirable, to divest it of the form it had thus assumed, and its objections are therefore retained: but only as a convenient formulary for objectors and objections in general.

Beside the alteration of the form of this work in the present Edition by incorporating the Notes, large quantities of addi tional matter have been introduced. The Sections, in parti onlar, on the Trinity, the Atonement, and the Christian Life, which, in the former Edition, to keep the whole within the pre4 scribed limits, were greatly contracted, are now expanded to dimensions more in proportion to the other Sections, and less incommensurate with the importance of their subjects. Other large additions have also been interspersed throughout. By adopting a larger paper and a smaller type, nearly twice as much is contained in a page as in the text of the former edition; while the number of pages is nearly the same.

Of the appendix to the former Edition, there has only been retained the Article, N o. I., Various particulars relating to a. Mention of the ann-swedenborg Heaven and Hell, &c., Explained. The subjects of this Article are not sufii ciently general to be introduced in the work itself; yet it will be found, on perusal, more completely to take away the ground of many common' objections made against the writings Of Swedenborg, and to evince that those writings contain no statements whatever which cannot be rationally vindicated. Most of the other portions Of the former Appendix have been incorporated in the work itself. One additional Article has been introduced, on a charge often brought against the New Church, - that of Sabellianism. This would very properly have made a portion of the work itself but the part in which it might have come in was completed before its introduction was thought Of. The subject being important, the reader is requested not to overlook it where it stands.

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