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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2540, 20 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Noticesjp Et AC TI cA L CHRISTIANITY. PUiILISIIIiD FOR THE SPECIAL B ENEI'IT OF NoNCIIUKCHGOBKS. I rue Christian Religion, intelligently under* stood, not to add to men's burdens but to remove, them. " For God scot not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John lit Its leading doctrines, adapted to the use of this New Aye. are summarised as follows—• ihcre is one God, in whom is a Divine Trinity of Love, Wisdom and Operation, and He is the Lord Jesus Christ. Saying Faith is to believe in Him. Evils are to be shunned, because tbey are of the devi! and from the devil. tyood Works ought to be done, because they are of God and from God, and tbey ought to be done by man as of himself, but with the belief that thev are from the Lord. operating in him by him. Hicrcaro two things which constitute the essence of God —love and wisdom. And there arc thro* which constitute the essence of His love—to love others out of Himself; to desire to be one with them ; and to make them happy from Himself, The same three constitute the essence oj His wisdom ; because love and wisdom in God make one, and love wills these things, and wisdom accomplishes them. (True Christian Religion, No. 43.) The word of God is Divine truth clothed in human language, and adapted to the varied states of the human heart, that thus a man may know God, and learn to know and do His will, "I' ye continue in My word, then are ye Mr disciples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should, do untojou: do ye evej so unto them ; for this is the law arid the prophets. Matt. vii. 8. The len Commandments point out what evils are to be shunned in order that men may attain eternal life. "That it is not so difficult to live the life of heaven as ifccmmonly believed is evident from this—that when anj thing presents itself that on© knows to be insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, he need not only think that it ought not to be done because it is contrary to the Divine commands. If a man accustoms himself so to think, and from custom derives the habit, he is then by degrees conjoined to heaven J and in so far as he is conjoined to heaven, the higher degrees of his mind are opened; and in so far as these are opened be sees what is insincere and unjust; and in so far as he sees these evils they can be shaken off, fnr it impossible that any evil can be shaken off until it be seen. This is a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; for who is not capable from freedom of thinking in this manner ? Hut when he has made a begin* ning all goods are wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes him not oniy to se« evils, but also not to will them, and finally to become averse to them. This is meant by the Lord's words. "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matt. xi. 30 Rut it should be known that the difficulty of so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increases in proportion as from the will commits evils, for in so far be becomes accustomed to them, until at length lie does not see them, and afterwards loves them, and frem the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they arc allowable and good. But this occurs with tkose who in the age of adolescence plunge into evils as if without restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from the heart."—(" Heaven and Hell," No. 533), This advertisement, though containing truth for all, is especially published for the benefit of those who from any cause do not profit by ordinary religious ministrations. Those who approve of the doctrines here enunciated, and who desire to assist in the work of disseminating them,'are in-' vitdtosend contributions to Mr \V\ F. Keen, Treasurer of the Sydney Society of the New Church, Carabella Street, North' Shore Sydney. The Works of Swcdenborg and Minor Literature of the New Church can be obtained front Mr W, Bullard, Bookseller, George-street, Sydney. j

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