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 to deny. It has never been denied. But are they the real New Church signified by the Apocalyptic New Jerusalem—and the whole of it? This is the question we are now to consider. And we shall not give merely our opinion, but the testimony of our heaven-illumined scribe. According to this authority the New Christian Church consists of all the people in Christendom who acknowledge the Lord and obey the commandments revealed in the Word; for all such, whatever be their creeds or their external church relations, are internally and spiritually conjoined to the Lord and associated with the angels of the New Christian Heaven. But precisely who these people are, can be known only to Him who looketh on the heart—who sees and knows the internal quality of men: That they are confined exclusively to any organized body, and known by their outward life or by the doctrines they profess, is by no means probable. That some of them are to found in all the Christian denominations, and some outside of them all, we have abundant reason to believe. Therefore this church is not a visible body, as many suppose.

Turn, now, to the testimony of our heaven-illumined teacher on this subject. A few brief quotations will suffice.

"By the New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse is meant the Lord's Church; and his Church is with