A

COURSE OF LECTURES

ON THE DOCTRINES

OF THE

NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH,

AS REVEALED IN THE THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS

OF

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG:

DILIVERED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK DURING THE WINTER OF 1840-41.

-

BY B. F. BARRETT,

PASTOR OP THE FIRST SOCIETY OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN NEW YORK.

" There are some things in the Word, which appear like contradictions when yet, viewed in its
own spiritual light, there is no contradiction... True doctrine, is like a lantern in the dark, and like
* guide-post in the ways .. Those who read the Word without doctrine, are in the dark concerning

Swedenborg, T. C. R. 226, 27, 28.

every truth.1

NEW YORK:

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CONTENTS.

LECT. I.

Page.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, WITH A SKETCH OF THE LIFE, WRI-

TINGS AND CHARACTER OF THE HON. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG...1

LECT. II.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH CONCERNING

THE END OF THE WORLD,” MENTIONED IN MATTHEW XXIV.

3, AND ELSEWHERE

32

LECT. III.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH CONCERNING

THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD, MENTIONED IN MATTHEW

xxiv. 30; MARK XIII. 26; LUKE XXI. 27; AND OTHER PLACES. .78

LECT. IV.

THE NECESSITY OF ADMITTING AN INTERNAL SENSE TO THE

WORD, SHOWN FROM THE SCRIPTURES THEMSELVES.

..116

LECT. V.

THE EXISTENCE OF AN INTERNAL SENSE IN THE WORD PROVED

FROM THE SACRED SCRIPTURES.

151

LECT. VI.

THE SCIENCE OF CORRESPONDENCES EXPLAINED, AND APPLIED

AS A RULE OF SCRIPTURE INTERPRETATION.

182

LECT. VII.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCIENCE OF COR-

RESPONDENCES AS A KEY TO THE RIGHT INTERPRETATION OF

THE SCRIPTURES.

.216

LECT. VIII.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH CONCERNING

THE DIVINE TRINITY AND THE TRUE OBJECT OF RELIGIOUS

WORSHIP

.252