Page:The Doctrines of the New Church Briefly Explained.djvu/17



Y the New Church, as the term is here employed, is to be understood that Church signified and foreshadowed by the Holy City, New Jerusalem, which the apostle John beheld in vision coming down from God out of heaven." (Rev. xxi. 2.) The doctrines of this Church were given to the world in a printed form more than a hundred years ago. Yet not one in fifty among intelligent Christians of the present day, knows what these doctrines are. The majority of people have heard something about them, and naturally suppose that what they have heard is correct; but they will generally find, on careful inquiry, that what they have heard is very far from the truth. Many honest and well-disposed persons ridicule these doctrines, who know little or nothing of them beyond what they have learned from persons no better informed than Rh