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 called the New Jerusalem increases on earth." (n. 732.)

This is found in the 4th volume of the work, which consists of six large octavo volumes in a No date is given of the time of its composition; but it could not have been written later than 1759; for in his treatise on the Last Judgment (n. 42), published in 1757, Swedenborg says he shall publish an explication of the Apocalypse (Ap. Ex.) "in less than two years" from that time.

It thus appears from what we are there told, that within two years after the Last Judgment, and before there was a single known or professed receiver of the new doctrines revealed through Swedenborg, and nearly thirty years before what Robert Hindmarsh called "the commencement of the New Church in its external and visible form," the New Church on earth was "daily increasing." Was there a daily increase at that time of a visible body of Christians known as the New Church? Certainly not; for there was then no such body of people on earth; no, nor a single receiver of the new revealings besides Swedenborg. Yet the New Church was established—visible, however, only to the eye of Omniscience—and was "daily increasing." Its newness consisted in the new thought about the Divine Character and attributes, the new and clearer perception of interior