TO THE READER.
HAVING been favoured with the permission of the Rev. Author to reprint this work, it is with much zeal and earnest solicitude for the good of mankind we recommend these few Plain Answers to their serious and attentive perusal.
In order to make this edition cheap, and as much within the purchase of every person as possible, we have been under the necessity of omitting the pious Author's excellent Address to his Congregation, contained in the edition published by himself in the course of the last year, which formed a preface to the work.
The importance of these twelve Plain Answers will be seen to consist in this—that they shew, in the clearest and most convincing manner, the reasons why the testimony of Baron Swedenborg is and ought to be received: and it is our ardent prayer that all who read this little pamphlet may be enabled to see that that testimony is in perfect agreement with the Word of God, and that its tendency is to open the divine and heavenly truths contained in that Word, and likewise to promote the regeneration of the heart and life.
A Society of Gentlemen.
Birmingham, May 24, 1807.
