The Divine ProvidenceWritten at a time of intense theological debate on the nature of God's governance of the world, The Divine Providence deals with a world so troubled that the loving hand of God is often hidden from our sight and brought into question. This companion work to Divine Love and Wisdom shows how divine nature governs human life and creation and describes how individual human freedom is inherent in creation and empowered by a God-given ability to understand and decide. This original and thought provoking work suggests that only divine love and wisdom can provide us with the accountability that gives meaning to our lives.EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (1688-1772) was a Swedish scientist, inventor, philosopher, and mystic. At the age fifty-six, his main focus shifted from science and philosophy to theology, as a result of, first, dreams and later visions of a spiritual world where he conversed with angels and spirits, including Moses and Jesus, who guided his interpretation of the Scriptures. He spent the last decades of his life publishing eighteen theological titles that draw on the Bible and his own spiritual experiences. |
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... live elegantly and magnificently , while the worshipers of God remain in contempt and poverty III . When he considers that wars are permitted , by which so many men are slaughtered , and their possessions plundered IV . When he thinks ...
... live elegantly and magnificently , while the worshipers of God remain in contempt and poverty III . When he considers that wars are permitted , by which so many men are slaughtered , and their possessions plundered IV . When he thinks ...
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... lives as a man after death , and this was not discovered till now ........................ 274 THAT EVILS ARE PERMITTED FOR A CERTAIN END , WHICH IS SALVATION I. That every man is in evil , and that he is to be withdrawn from evil that ...
... lives as a man after death , and this was not discovered till now ........................ 274 THAT EVILS ARE PERMITTED FOR A CERTAIN END , WHICH IS SALVATION I. That every man is in evil , and that he is to be withdrawn from evil that ...
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... lives in the world , can be in good and at the same time in falsity , likewise in evil and at the same time in truth , yea , can be in evil and at the same time in good , and thus as it were a double man ; and since this division ...
... lives in the world , can be in good and at the same time in falsity , likewise in evil and at the same time in truth , yea , can be in evil and at the same time in good , and thus as it were a double man ; and since this division ...
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... lives in the world , and is thus in the liberty of thinking , will- ing , speaking , and acting , in which he may be reformed . Con- cerning this spiritual equilibrium , from which is derived the liberty of man , see the work on HEAVEN ...
... lives in the world , and is thus in the liberty of thinking , will- ing , speaking , and acting , in which he may be reformed . Con- cerning this spiritual equilibrium , from which is derived the liberty of man , see the work on HEAVEN ...
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... live from the Lord , the angels themselves confess . Hence it may appear that heaven is con- junction with the Lord . But as the conjunction with the Lord is various , and consequently one has not the same heaven as another , it also ...
... live from the Lord , the angels themselves confess . Hence it may appear that heaven is con- junction with the Lord . But as the conjunction with the Lord is various , and consequently one has not the same heaven as another , it also ...
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THAT IT IS A LAW OF THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE THAT A MAN AS FROM HIM | 58 |
THAT IT IS A LAW OF THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE THAT A MAN SHOULD | 76 |
THAT IT IS A LAW OF THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE THAT A MAN SHOULD | 93 |
PERCEIVE AND FEEL ANY THING OF THE OPERATION OF THE DIVINE PRO | 107 |
That there are several kinds of profanation of what is holy | 152 |
THAT THE LAWS OF PERMISSION ARE ALSO LAWS OF THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE 234 | 162 |
That every worshiper of self and of nature confirms himself against | 169 |
When he thinks according to his perception that victories declare | 175 |
When he considers the religions of various nations and that there | 176 |
Because among those who profess the Christian religion there | 183 |
Because heretofore it was not known that in every particular | 191 |
THAT THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE IS EQUALLY WITH THE WICKED AND | 209 |
THAT SELFDERIVED PRUDENCE IS NOTHING AND ONLY APPEARS AS IF | 119 |
That the affections of a mans lifes love are led of the Lord by | 125 |
THAT THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE HAS RESPECT TO THINGS ETERNAL AND | 133 |
That things temporary and eternal are separated by man but | 140 |
THAT A MAN IS NOT ADMITTED INTERIORLY INTO THE TRUTHS OF FAITH | 145 |
THAT THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE APPROPRIATES NEITHER EVIL NOR GOOD TO | 228 |
THAT EVERY MAN MAY BE REFORMED AND THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING | 245 |
THAT THE LORD CANNOT ACT AGAINST THE LAWS OF THE DIVINE PROVI | 262 |
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Page 173 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page 173 - And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely : for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Page 60 - But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Page 82 - Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets ; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham : but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him. If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Page 82 - I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house : for I have five brethren ; that He may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Page 107 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 183 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 188 - For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity : to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion : to say, There be three Gods, or three Lords.