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 piety of a Swedenborg, or the simplicity and teachableness of a little child, there is a society in heaven for them to unite with, and a mansion in heaven for them to dwell in, in which they shall enjoy the per fection of happiness.

HERE is a union between the divine love, or Father, and the divine wisdom, or Son. "Without this union, we should be unable to receive any of the blessedness which flows from the divine love; for it is by and through the divine wisdom that the love of the Father is manifested; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath brought him forth to view; and this divine wisdom introduces us to the divine love, for no man cometh to the Father but by the Son. This union of the divine love and wisdom, or of the Father and the Son, may be called the divine marriage. By the divine wisdom, or Son, man is led to the divine love; and no man can see the Father but as the Son renders him manifest. When man turned himself from the Lord, and, instead of loving Him, loved himself, or loved others for the sake of himself, he must have perished, if the Lord, in His love and pity, had not assumed the humanity, and, by redeeming him, had become his Saviour. By this act of redemption, we are again enabled to turn unto the Lord, to open our understandings that His divine