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truth is discovered in its brightness, all mankind do not immediately assent to and rejoice in it. You will see, likewise, the sanctity of the Holy Scriptures taught and explained, and the hidden wisdom thereof opened and brought to light by the doctrine of correspondences^ with such a fullness of conviction as will at the same time both greatly astonish and edify you, while it supplies an internal evidence of the Divinity of the sacred Word, and particularly of the Apocalyptic part of it, infinitely surpassing, yet not overturning but confirming, all its external evidence.

PRACTICAL VALUE OF THE NEW DOCTRINES.

" You will see, further, the purest, plainest, and most consistent doctrine of life presented to your view, and contrasted with those impure, dark, and inconsistent tenets which are at this day so frequently taught and circulated under the venerable name of Christian precepts. And here you will be surprised to find every evil of life, and every error of doctrine, detected and described, which in these latter times threaten the very existence of religion in the kingdoms of the earth, and cause so much serious alarm in the minds of many Christians who look further than the mere skin and complexion of the Church to

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