What reason has ever been assigned, why the latter should be regarded as a part of the divine word, any more than the former? I am not aware that it has ever been shown that they contain any internal evidence of being a part of the word of Jehovah. I do not remember any one passage in those letters, in which the Lord distinctly speaks, in his own name and by his own divine authority and power. So far from this being the case, the expression, "I Paul" occurring in several places, shows very clearly, that the writer intended to be regarded as the real author of the letters which he wrote. How infinitely unlike those sacred scriptures which prove by their "spirit and life,"—their internal and spiritual sense, that they constitute the divine word of the Lord. In that divine word we see "no man but the Lord only." He is "sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train fills the temple." And around the temple, the "Seraphim stand crying one to another, holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory." That holy word comes to us with the divine imprimatur of "thus saith the Lord." A large portion of it is presented to us as the express words of Jehovah himself. And to those who will acquaint themselves with it, there is now presented a clear and unanswerable demonstration of the divinity of the Word. Unlike any other writings, that the world has ever seen, it is shown to contain an internal and spiritual sense, which is manifested through the sense of the letter, as a man's spirit is manifested through the medium of his body; or as the spiritual world is manifested through the medium of the natural world. But for a full explanation of this important subject, I would most respectfully refer the reader to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. If he will faithfully examine those writings, with a serious desire and affection for the truth, he will find a flood of heavenly light, poured upon every page of the divine word. He will there find a test applied which, with infallible certainty, separates the divine word
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