ATHANASIAN CREED,

EXTRACTED FROM

THE APOCALYPSE

OR BOOK OF

ELATIONS EXPLAINED,

OF

EDENBORG.

This little work is taken from the Apocalypse Explained, beginn with No. 1091 and ending with No. 1229. As it is there publishe cannot be read continuously without considerable difficulty, it bein work which is distinct and complete in itself, and yet added in sm portions to the sections of another work, which is also complete in its To obviate this difficulty and thus to make this treatise more ext sively useful, it has been thought advisable to publish it separately. The present edition of 1841 has been carefully revised, and translation is believed to be improved.

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CONTENTS.

The Athanasian Creed,....

The state of faith and love with man in this world, and afterwards

in the other into which he comes after death,..

That the doctrine of faith which has its name from Athanasius,

leaves a clear idea whilst it is reading, that there are three per-

sons, and hence that there are three unanimous Gods, and an

obscure idea that God is one, and so obscure, that it does not re-

move the idea of three Gods,....

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That the same doctrine leaves a clear idea that the Lord has a Di-

vine and a Human, or that the Lord is God and Man, but an ob-

scure idea that the Divine and Human of the Lord are one per-

son, and that his Divine is in his Human as the soul in the body, 12

That nevertheless all things contained in that doctrine, from begin-

ning to end, both such as are clear and such as are obscure, agree

and coincide with the truth, if instead of saying that God is one

in essence and three in person, it be believed, as the real truth is,

that God is one both in essence and person,..

The agreement of all things of the Athanasian doctrine with this

truth, that God is one both in essence and person, in whom is a

trinity (trinum),..

The agreement of the Athanasian doctrine with this truth, that the

Human of the Lord is Divine by virtue of the Divine which was

in him from conception,.

That this has come to pass by the Divine Providence of the Lord,

That in the Lord there is a trinity (trinum), the Divine Itself,

which is called the Father, the Divine Human which is called

the Son, and the Divine Proceeding which is called the Holy

Spirit,.

Of the Life Itself, which is God, and of the Divine attributes,

Eternity, Infinity and Omnipotence,...

The laws of Divine order respecting man's reformation, regenera-

tion, and consequent salvation, which are called laws of Divine

Providence,...

Of the first and second law of Divine Providence,..

third Law of Divine Providence,.

fourth law of Divine Providence,.

fifth law of Divine Providence,.

sixth law of Divine Providence,...

seventh law of Divine Providence,.

eighth law of Divine Providence,.

ninth law of Divine Providence,...

tenth law of Divine Providence,

Of the life of animals and the soul of vegetables,.

Of the Divine Omnipresence and Omniscience,..

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