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whole Word teaches both in the Old Testament and Prophets, and in the New Testament and Evangelists, as may be clearly seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord. (A. R. 490-500.)


THE DIVINE HUMANITY.

Man's conjunction with the Lord is not with his essential supreme Divinity, but with his Divine Humanity; for man can have no idea whatever of the Lord's supreme Divinity : this so far transcends his comprehension, that the idea totally perishes and becomes no idea. But of his Divine Humanity man can have an idea; for every one is conjoined by thought and affection where the subject conjoined with is capable of being apprehended by some idea, but not where it cannot.

All they within the church who say that they believe in a supreme Being, and who despise the Lord, are such as believe nothing at all, not even that there is a heaven or a hell, and who worship nature.

But men think variously of the Lord's Humanity — one man different from another, and one more holily than another. They within the church can think that his Humanity is Divine, and that He is one with the Father as He Himself says : that the Father is in Him and He in the Father. But they who are out of the church cannot do this, because they know nothing of the Lord, and because they take their idea of the

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