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, Cowper, Keble, Heber, Bowring, Watts, and a few other Old Church hymnologists—36 being from the pen of Dr. Watts. And throughout the entire collection (of 116), I find not a single one from the pen of a known or professed Newchurchman.

Then in the New Church, or in its authorized teachings, about all the doctrines of the Old or former Christian Church are reaffirmed—but differently understood and explained. The Divine unity, omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence, the divinity and inspiration of the Scriptures, the Messiah's advent, redemption, repentance, reformation, regeneration, resurrection, a general judgment, a life after death, a heaven and a hell, and a second coming of Christ—all these doctrines were believed and taught by the Old Church, or prior to the New Dispensation. Swedenborg says:—

"A Christian [by which is meant every one who accepts the Christian religion] sees from the Word that God is one, that the Lord is the Savior of the world, that all good in itself good and all truth in itself truth is from God, and nothing from man; that Baptism is and the Holy Supper is; that there is a heaven and a hell and a life after death; and that he who does good comes into heaven, and he who does evil comes into hell." (A. E. 1180.)