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recommend it to our readers as an addittional auxiliary in combating against, and defeating the pernicious errors concerning the nature and object of redemption, and also concerning the doctrines of atonement and justification which so generally prevail at the present time. The author has first stated from undoubted authorities, the tenets which are commonly maintained on these subjects in the Church of Scotland, and, generally, throughout the Christain church; he then proceeds to shew, from the light of genuine doctrine, how untenable these tenets are, and how much they darken the mind as to every thing truly spiritual and heavenly, and keep it bound to earth, instead of enabling it to rise to heaven. The fruits of these erroneous and pernicious doctrines have all along, from the days of Calvin, Knox, and Luther, been abundantly manifest in the church; but these fruits were probably never so bitter to the taste, giving rise to so much heart-burning, strife, dissention, &c., as at the present period in the Church of Scotland. When a spirit in every way so antichristian is manifest, and that too amongst the clergy themselves, who ought to be "examples to the flock," it surely behoves them to look more deeply than to laypatronage for the causes of their present unchristian state of conduct and of life. These causes will be found to consist in the erroneous and pernicious doctrines which so generally prevail, and in a life too much in accordance with those unscriptural, irrational, and antichristian doctrines. For as all genuine doctrine leads to goodness, charity, and heaven, so all false doctrine has an opposite tendency. Hence the great causes of that anguish, strife, and misery, which at the present time afflicts not only the Church of Scotland but also the Church of England and of Rome, and, generally, the Christian Church. It requires but little elevation into the light of genuine truth to see that now "is the time of the end," and that "the abomination of desolation now stands in the holy place." We could wish that this Treatise might be converted into a Tract, and distributed in thousands about the country.

Glasgow Series of Christian Tracts:-1. The Supreme Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2. The Apostolic Doctrine of the Resurrection. 3. The Apostolic Doctrine of the Atonement. 4. The Last Judgment. 5. Justification by Faith. 6. Nature of Life after Death. 7. On the Divine Foreknowledge. 8. Character of the True Christian. 9. Human Responsibility. 10. Possibility of Supernatural Communications. 11. The Claims of Emanuel Swedenborg to Supernatural Communication, stated and examined. 12. Religious

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Instruction for Young People. 13. On the Blood of Christ.
On the Spiritual Meaning of the Blood of Christ. 15. Popular
Errors concerning the Blood of Christ.-Sold by Paton and Love,
Glasgow; J. S. Hodson, 112, Fleet Street; and Newbery, Chenies
Street, Bedford Square.

THESE tracts announce leading and important subjects of Christian doctrine and life. Most of the arguments by which the false doctrines on these subjects are confuted, are here judiciously stated and ably confirmed by abundant testimony from Scripture, and illustrated by many rational considerations. We would particularly point out the tracts on the Resurrection, on the Atonement, Justification by Faith, and the three on the Blood of Christ, as being eminently useful. How erroneous are the prevailing opinions on these all important subjects! How obstructive to the progress of regeneration, and consequent salvation! The falses which so generally prevail as to these most momentous subjects, are like canker-worms which destroy the very roots of Christianity in the soul. The noblest effort of charity to do good is that of propagating truth, because by truth we are led to goodness, to holiness, and to heaven. Let every person, therefore, who is concerned about the real good of his fellow-men, procure an abundance of these tracts (for they are extremely cheap) and distribute them to his friends and his neighbours all around.

MANCHESTER NEW CHURCH MISSIONARY

INSTITUTION.

THE Committee of this institution beg to call the attention of their friends to its present position, the treasurer being entirely without funds. At the close of last year, your committee issued a circular appealing to the friends of the church for increased support; this was responded to by many, but not to the extent required; but we earnestly hope that all those who feel an interest in extending our doctrines, will now come forward and support an institution whose claims stand so high.

Your committee feel much pleasure in having the efficient services of twentynine ministers and missionaries in connexion with this institution, whose labours are chiefly confined to this neighbourN. S. No. 36.-VOL. 3.

hood, but, if our funds allowed, might be more extensively employed with much advantage; and still further extend our works by the distribution of tracts throughout the country, and thus increase the good already effected by the tract society.

The Rev. R. Storry has recently been engaged under the auspices of your committee, in visiting our friends in the North Riding of Yorkshire, where he has been employed delivering lectures on the New Church doctrines, which have been very favourably received, and from the accounts given, we have no doubt, will be productive of much good, for the reception given to the minister of the church in that district fully evinces the

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estimation in which these efforts to increase the knowledge of the truth are held by the friends there. Mr. Storry's visit can scarcely be considered as a missionary visit. Your committee being entirely without funds, were reluctantly compelled to limit him both in time and distance, but from the spirit manifested, it is quite evident, that a wide and extensive field is open for the cultivation of the object in view.

Your committee have recently been called upon to re-establish in a large and populous town in Cheshire, a society which for many years has become almost extinct, to which we have cheerfully complied, as far as our means allowed, but unless increased support is afforded, it is feared it cannot long be sustained with that vigour which should ever attend such an undertaking.

Your committee have also been in communication with a few zealous friends who are very desirous to establish in a large manufacturing town in this county, a New Church society, where every facility is offered for its permanent foundation, and in addition to many other advantages, a minister who has always been most active in missionary labours, has kindly agreed to deliver gratuitously to the society a lecture every fortnight for twelve months; but cheering as this opening appears, we can at present render no assistance for want of pecuniary

means.

Applications have been made for the

delivery of lectures during the winter months, and for missionary assistance in various other ways, all of which we are compelled to decline, not having sufficient funds to sustain all the societies usually dependant upon us for missionary aid. More might be urged in its behalf, but we trust, enough has been stated to shew the present position of the institution, which, if only supported as its great importance requires, will soon become a invaluable aid to the church at large.

Your committee trust they will not be thought too urgent in again appealing to their friends for increased aid, and particularly those at a distance, whose calls may not be so numerous, feeling assured that the noble work entrusted to our care will not be allowed to languish for want of adequate support. In conclusion, we earnestly solicit your co-operation and assistance, and by thus exercising the "talent" entrusted to our care, we shall become prepared for that future state where our faith, charity, and "good works" here, will fit us to become inhabitants of a glorious kingdom hereafter.

Communications containing any suggestions for the improvement of the society, will be thankfully received by the secretary, Mr. T. Selby, Windsor Bridge, Salford, and contributions, for which Post Office orders are available, by the treasurer, Mr. Broadfield, Cateaton Street, Manchester.

November, 1842.

CONCLUDING ADDRESS OF THE EDITORS.

In concluding the third volume of the New Series of this Periodical, the Editors embrace this opportunity of expressing their sincere acknowledgments to their correspondents and friends, for the assistance they have enjoyed in presenting this Magazine to the Public. One of the Editors, who now retires from the office with which he has been honoured for the last three years, is deeply mindful of the kind assistance of those correspondents who have sent him their communications, and hopes they will continue to assist and patronize a periodi

cal, which, if efficiently conducted, cannot fail to promote the holy cause of goodness and truth.

According to a resolution of the late General Conference, the editorial department has been altered. In order to give the work a greater concentration, it has been deemed advisable to have but one editor, who can in every case of difficulty and doubt, consult a council, or two or three of his brethren, for the purpose of assisting his judgment, and relieving him from the entire burden of responsibility, either in admitting or rejecting papers, which, in the estimation of some, might not be considered calculated to promote the good cause, which the Repository has now for thirty years, been established to advance. As the communication between all parts of the kingdom is now so speedy and regular, that every town of importance may be considered as a centre of communication, still acknowledging the metropolis as the great centre of publication and national business, it has also been deemed advisable, for the present at least, to print this periodical in Manchester; especially, as, according to the report of the committee appointed to examine into the expenses attending the printing, &c. of the Repository, it was found, from estimates and specimens of printing, paper, &c., that it could be printed at Manchester equally as well as heretofore, at a saving of between £50 and £60 per annum. This measure will, we think, be seen by every person to be just and proper, particularly as the funds for the printing of the Magazine, are, by no means, in an affluent state.

The two agents in London, appointed by Conference, for the sale of its publications, Mr. Hodson, 112, Fleet Street, and Mr. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Beford Square, will be supplied with the work in abundance of time to transmit it to all parts of the kingdom, by the first of each month. These agents are, therefore, referred to as the responsible parties for the due transmission of the Magazine to those societies and booksellers who take in the work.

All communications will, in future, be sent to the Editor, No. 2, Ordsall Terrace, Regent Road, Salford.

ESSAYS, &c.
Accrington, Farewell to dear friends

emigrating from, 178

Allegation, On the erroneous, that the
Hebrew is the basis of the Science of
Correspondences, 89

Balaam and Balak, from Swedenborg's
Notes, 41, 121

Baptism of Infants, an additional Use of, 9
Beyer, Dr., Letters to and from Swe-
denborg, 296

Body, Natural and Material, on the
Meaning of the terms of, 370, 467
British Critic, 412

Canons of the New Church, 441
Changes, Ecclesiastical, on the Prospect
of, 267

Chester, Bishop of, 412

Christian Ministry, on the Constitution
and Nature of, 285

Church, New, Means of extending the
Ministry of, 292

Church, Hear the, 382, 418, 456
Church, how far the objects of Nature
correspond to the existing State of, 13
"Consecration," meaning of, 469
Coleridge's Opinion of the Calumny that
Swedenborg was mad, 146

Colours, and their Symbolical Meaning,
361

Conjugial Love, Treatise on, Reflections
occasioned by the Rev. G. Gibbon's
Attack, 1

Contradiction and Confusion in the pre-
valent Religious Opinions, 388
Correspondence of Spiritual with Natural
Things, 10

Science of, Hebrew the

Basis of, 89, 165

181

Duties of the Father of a Family, 209
Education, Reflections on, for extending

the Ministry of the New Church, 292
Extract from a Review of Swedenborg's
Poems, 81

from the Correspondence of the
late Mr. Salmon, 393

from Seneca, 141

Family Prayer, the Eminent Uses of, 128
Folly of interpreting the Word in a lite-
ral Manner, 87

Freedom of a Man and a Spirit, distinc-

tion between, 281

Ferelius' Letter concerning Swedenborg,

229

Fourier's System and the London Pha-
lanx, 189

Gibbon's, Rev. G., Recent Attack, Re-
flections on, 1

Goodness, the great importance of Truth
as well as, in the Regeneration of Man,
303
Good, the, of the External Man, On the
Comparative Inefficacy of, 401
God generally worshiped, by modern
Christians, as infinite power, rather
than goodness, 454

Health of the Body and Mind, On the

Relation subsisting between the, 241
"Hear the Church," 382, 418, 456
Heaven, the Word is for ever settled in,
220

Hebrew, the Basis of the Science of
Correspondence, 17, 89, 165

History of Balaam and Balak, 41, 121
Hymn-Book, Conference, Remarks on
Hymn 28, 144

Immutability, 252

a Practical Science, 135, Importance of Truth as well as of good
in the Regeneration of Man, 303

in the Spiritual world is Infants, an Additional Use of the Bap-
tism of, 9

with its inhabitants, &c., 207

ence of, 244

Reflections on the Sci- Interpretation, of Mal. iii. 3, 4, 392
Invention by Swedenborg of a New Stove
for warming Apartments, 45

of Salt, 374

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