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menced the study of the heavenly doctrines; and during the remainder of his earthly life he was a diligent student and faithful teacher of these doctrines as expounded by Swedenborg and unfolded from the higher and heavenly sense of the Sacred Scriptures.

    • No sooner," he says, " had I finished the perusal of the True Christian Religion, than the treatise on Heaven and Hell, the Arcana Coelestia, the Apocalypse Revealed, the Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom, and also concerning the Divine Providence, the Delights of Wisdom concerning Conjugial Love, etc., with other minor tracts by the same author, were successively read, or rather devoured; and as constantly excited wonder, delight and edification. At the same time a strong and

ardent desire was enkindled to put others in possession of the same sources of heavenly intelligence; and this desire frequently, yet tacitly, expressed itself in those words of the great Saviour, where he prays, * Father that they may be with me to behold Thy glory' John xvii : 24. For the whole testimony as delivered by the messenger of the New Jerusalem verities in his theological writings, appeared to my mind like a radiant glory from the face of Jesus Christy and repeatedly called to my recollection the words of that incarnate God, where, speaking of his second advent,

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