The Athanasian doctrine of the Divine Trinity... This doctrine leaves a clear idea of three Divine Persons, and an obscure idea of one Divine Person........... How the doctrine may be so interpreted as to agree with the truth............ The Divine Trinity proved from the Word, from the Divine essence, and from heaven...... A trine in God existed from eternity.. False ideas concerning God, especially among the learned... Every one, in the idea of his spirit, sees God as a man..... The most ancient people worshipped God under a visible form...... The reason why the Divinity, among many nations, has been distinguished into so many persons......... That God is a Divine Man...... That the Lord Jesus Christ is that Man. That Life itself is not creatable.... How the Lord appears before the eyes of the angels.... Degrees of life..... The opening of these degrees in man........... PART II. 33 34 35 37 38 40 41 42 43 46 46 ...... 47 THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. God is uncreated life, or life itself............. Created things and beings are, from their nature, finite..... The infinity of God..... The omnipotence of God... Men and angels receive all their power from God.......... 59 ༄་སྐྱ་ 53 55 56 PAGE The laws, which have respect to man's salvation, are laws of the Divine Providence. 61 Ten laws of the Divine Providence enumerated................ First Law of the Divine Providence....... Second Law of the Divine Providence..... 62 65 65 The reason why man feels life from the Lord, in himself, as his own.. 68 That good and truth flow-in from the Lord, shown from experience.. 78 80 Fifth Law of the Divine Providence.... The secret operations of the Divine Providence, illustrated. Sixth Law of the Divine Providence.... Man cannot be reformed by miracles and visions..... Facts illustrating the inefficacy of miracles and visions... Seventh Law of the Divine Providence.................. Profanation of things holy........... The lot that awaits profaners in the other world.. Eighth Law of the Divine Providence... Man's spiritual condition by inheritance. 88 90 91 92 94 95 96 97 99 100 Test of the quality of all who enter the spiritual world.. The Lord alone can resist evils with man....... 102 104 Man can do good only so far as he is withdrawn from evils..... Man, as to his spirit, is closely linked with spirits in the other world............ 114 How man may be withdrawn from the society of evil spirits The Lord leads man by his affections........... Why man is led by affections and not by thoughts..... Why some deny that there is a Divine Providence.. The Lord teaches no one immediately, but mediately. Spiritual illustration-what it is, and how effected......... A medium of salvation provided for every nation upon earth.. Tenth Law of the Divine Providence............ The principal end determines a man's spiritual quality.. ..... 115 116 117 117 119 120 124 127 130 131 135 136 ... 138 All who enter heaven find delight in doing uses. The omnipresence and omniscience of God....... PAGE 141 144 Time and space do not belong to the spiritual world................................... 145 The appearance of time and space in heaven is according to state................. 147 Space and time to be removed from the idea of the Divine omnipresence and omniscience.......... 149 The angels in heaven and the church on earth are as one man whose life the Lord is...... 151 How the Lord can be in the most singular things with the angels of heaven and men of the church....... 154 How the Lord is present with those who are out of heaven and the church.... 155 How the Lord is the all in all of heaven and the church, shown from His omnipresence and omniscience.......... ......... 157 The Divine omnipresence and omniscience comprehended from the creation of the universe.... 158 The divine omnipresence is from the divine love, and the divine omniscience from the divine wisdom......... 163 PART III. THE DIVINE LOVE.. That it is little comprehended in the world what love is, when yet it is the very life itself of man........... 169 That the Lord alone is love itself, because life itself, and that man and angel is only a recipient........ That all things of the world also have respect to a like form..... 181 That there are as many uses as there are affections.... 182 That there are genera and species of affections, and differences of species, in infinitum, and in like manner of uses..... 183 That there are degrees of affections and of uses....... 186 That every use derives its life from the common (use,) and that from it flow-in the necessary, the useful, and the delightful things of life according to the quality of the use, and the quality of its affection.......... 188 That so far as man is in the love of use, so far he is in the love of the Lord, so far he loves Him, and loves the neighbor, and is a man.. That they are not men, nor in the Lord, who love themselves above all things, and the world as themselves........ 190 194 That man is not of a sound mind, unless use be his affection or occupation.......... 196 That every man is an affection, and that there are as many various affections as 201 there are men, who have been either already born, or will be born, to eternity. 199 That man hath eternal life according to his affection of use.......... That the will of man is his affection....... 204 |