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

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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This work is organized as follows: I. The Structure of the Pauline Eschatology II. The Interaction Between Eschatology and Soteriology III. The Religious and Ethical Motivation of Paul’s Eschatology IV. The Coming of the Lord and Its Precursors V. The Man of Sin VI. The Resurrection VII. Alleged Development in Paul’s Teaching on the Resurrection VIII. The Resurrection-Change IX. The Extent of the Resurrection X. The Question of Chiliasm, in Paul XI. The Judgment XII. The Eternal State Appendix: The Eschatology of the Psalter

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First published in 1700, The Christian¿s Reasonable Service (De Redelijke Godsdienst) ran through twenty Dutch editions in the eighteenth century alone! The title is derived from Romans 12:1, ¿I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.¿ It expresses what God requires from man, and particularly from the Christian, that he serve Him in Spirit and in truth¿intelligently, rationally, and in harmony with and response to God¿s revelation of Himself, His Word. With a decidedly Puritan flavor and representing Reformed experiential religion at its best, Wilhelmus à Brakel systematically moves through the major doctrines of the Bible in hopes of seeing the minds of God¿s people renewed for the purpose of promoting godliness. Throughout his work, but particularly in the practical application of each doctrine, à Brakel strives unceasingly to exalt the name of Jesus as the name that the Father has given above every other name¿there being no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

In the study of Christian eschatological thought, virtually no attention has been given to past interpretations of the biblical phrase the new heavens and earth. John Duff uncovers the interpretations of this phrase that were extant in seventeenth-century England. These interpretations fall into two basic camps—those that understood the phrase metaphorically and those that understood the phrase literally.Some English divines believed the new heavens and earth referred to the new age of the gospel that commenced in the first century CE. At that time, God flung open the doors of salvation to Gentiles while at the same time bringing judgment to the Jewish nation for its failure to recognize and embrace Jesus as Messiah. This epic transition was fittingly described as a new heavens and earth.A second group of English interpreters believed the phrase stood for a yet future time when the political and religious circumstances of the world would change for the betterment of the church for one thousand years. The new heavens and earth stood for a future millennium in which Christ would establish his reign over the world prior to the day of resurrection and final judgment. Theologians who accepted a literal understanding believed the new heavens and earth described the renovation of the physical creation at the final judgment. Among this group, differences of opinion existed with respect to how much of the world would need cleansing, what creatures would be restored and of what use would a renovated world serve. The idea that the earth, and not heaven, would be the final abode of the saints emerged among a few obscure writers.