True Christian Religion by Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John C Ager v2 (2009).pdf

True

Christian

Religion

Containing

the universal theology of the new church

foretold by the Lord in Daniel 7:13–14

and Revelation 21:1–2

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Volume 2

(Numbers 463–851)

Translated from the Original Latin by

John C. Ager

S TANDARD E DITION

SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION

West Chester, Pennsylvania

This version was compiled from electronic files of the

Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as

further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of

this PDF document does not match that of the

corresponding printed volumes, and any page references

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all of the numerical references herein are not to page

numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are

not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears

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Contents

Editor’s Preface

Freedom of Choice (463–508)

1. The placing of two trees in the garden of Eden . . .

signifies that freedom of choice in things spiritual has

been given to man (466–469)

2. Man is not life, but a receptacle of life from God

(470–474)

3. So long as man lives in the world, he is kept midway

between heaven and hell, and is there in spiritual

equilibrium, which is freedom of choice (475–478)

4. It is clearly manifest from that permission of evil in

which everyone’s internal man is that man has

freedom of choice in spiritual things (479–482).

5. Without freedom of choice in spiritual things, the Word

would be of no use, and consequently the church

would be nothing (483–484)

6. Without freedom of choice in spiritual things, there

would be nothing in man whereby he could in turn

conjoin himself with the Lord; consequently there

would be no imputation, but mere predestination,

which is detestable (485–488)

7. If there were no freedom of choice in spiritual things,

God would be the cause of evils and thus there would

be no imputation (489–492)

8. Everything spiritual of the church that enters into man

in freedom, and is received with freedom, remains; but

not the reverse (493–496)

9. Man’s will and understanding are in this freedom of

choice; nevertheless in both worlds, the spiritual and

the natural, the doing of evil is restrained by laws,

because otherwise society in both worlds would perish

(497–499)

10. If men had not freedom of choice in spiritual things,

all the inhabitants of the world might in one day be

led to believe in the Lord; but this cannot be done,

because that which is not received by man with

freedom of choice does not remain (500–502)

First memorable relation (503)

Second memorable relation (504)

Third memorable relation (505)

Fourth memorable relation (506)

Fifth memorable relation (507)

Sixth memorable relation (508)

Repentance (509–570)

1. Repentance is the first thing of the church in man

(510–511)

2. The contrition, which at the present day is said to

precede faith, and to be followed by the consolation of

the gospel, is not repentance (512–515)

3. The mere lip-confession that one is a sinner is not

repentance (516–519)

4. Man is born [with an inclination] to evils of every kind;

and unless he to some extent removes his evils by

repentance, he remains in them; and he who remains

in evils cannot be saved (520–524)

5. Recognition of sin and the discovery of some sin in

oneself are the beginning of repentance (525–527)

6. Actual repentance is examining oneself, recognizing and

acknowledging one’s sins, praying to the Lord, and

beginning a new life (528–531)

7. True repentance is examining not only the actions of

one’s life but also the intentions of one’s will

(532–534)

8. Those also repent who although they do not examine

themselves, yet refrain from evils because they are sins;

and those who from religion do the works of charity

exercise such repentance (535–537)

9. Confession ought to be made before the Lord God the

savior, followed by supplication for help and the

power to resist evils (538–560)

10. Actual repentance is easy for those who have now and

then practiced it, but is a very difficult task for those

who have not (561–563)

11. One who has never repented or has never looked into

and searched himself finally ceases to know what

damning evil or saving good is (564–566)

First memorable relation (567)

Second memorable relation (568)

Third memorable relation (569)

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