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 not only as a new visible body distinguished by its doctrines, but as separate and distinct from the former Christian Church as that was from the Jewish. This idea of the New Church—though held by many receivers of the new doctrines is, we submit, an altogether mistaken idea. For consider:—

The Jewish Church was not properly a church, but only the representative of a church. (A. C. 4281, '89.) But the Christian church was a church—a true church—at its commencement. And the New Jerusalem is still the Christian Church, but renewed or re-established. Some of the "more things" which Swedenborg told some inquiring angels were then (1768) revealed, were those "concerting a New Church to be re-established (instauranda—revived, renewed) by the Lord, and concerning the doctrine of that church." (C. L. 532.) And the reason assigned for the revealing of the grand Key (Correspondence) to the spiritual sense of the Word, was, "that the Christian Church which is founded upon the Word . . . may again revive and draw breath through heaven from the Lord." (Ibid.) Now, no New Churchman believes—for it is nowhere said or intimated in the Writings—that the Old or former Christian Church was a revival or re-establishment of the Jewish Church. Therefore the distinction between the New Church