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THE SWEDENBORG LIBRARY.

With such a man an angel of heaven cannot discourse, because the one does not understand the language of the other. (D. F. 46 '7, '8.)


WHAT THE ANGELS SAY ABOUT IT.

I once saw a number of spirits assembled, all upon their knees, praying God to send his angels that they might converse with them face to face, and open to them the thoughts of their hearts. And when they arose, there appeared three angels in white linen garments standing before them, and they said: The Lord Jesus Christ has heard your prayers, and has therefore sent us to you. Open unto us the thoughts of your hearts.

And they answered: We have been told by our priests, that in matters of a theological nature the understanding avails nothing, but faith alone; and that in such things intellectual faith is of no service to any one because it is derived from man. We are Englishmen, and have heard many things from our holy priesthood, which we believed. But when we have conversed with others who also called themselves the Reformed, and with others who called themselves Roman Catholics, and likewise with sectaries, they all appeared to us learned; and yet in many things one did not agree with another, and still they all said: "Believe us;" and some of them: "We are God's ministers and know."

But as we know that divine truths which are called truths of faith, and which appertain to the church, are

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