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 SWEDEXliOllG'S THEOLOGICAL WORKS. universe, including man as the chief end of creation. It explains the trinal distinction which exists in all created things from the trinity in God, and shows how this trinity is manifested in men and angels, who are images of the Divine. It unfolds also the Doctrine of Degrees, and explains the three discrete degrees of the human mind, showing when and hy what means these are opened, and what is affected by their opening. It further reveals the origin of evil uses, and the origin, de- sign and tendency of good uses. Angejic Wisdom concerning the Divine Providence. p p- 2 74- This work treats of the nature and operations of the Divine Provi- dence, and unfolds the laws of order according to which God's moral government is regulated. It shows that his end in the creation of the world was a heaven of angels from the human race; that the Divine Providence works not at random, but according to certain invariable LAWS which are here disclosed; that it is universal, extending to the least things as well as to the greatest; that in all it does it has respect to what is eternal with man, and to things temporary only for the sake of what is eternal ; that the laws of permission are also among the laws of Divine Providence; that evils are permitted fur the sake of the end, which is salvation ; that the Divine Providence is equally with the wicked and the good ; that the Lord cannot act against the laws of his Providence, because to act against them would be to act against his Divine Love and his Divine Wisdom, consequently against Himself. The True Christian Religion; containing- the Universal Theology of the New Church foretold by the Lord in the Apocalypse, xxi., 1,2; with the Coronis and a copious Index. Pp. 982. #2.50. This is the last work which Swedenborg published, and contains a full and comprehensive statement of the theology of the New Church, treat- ing of God the Creator; The Lord, the Redeemer ; The Holy Spirit; The Divine Trinity ; The Sacred Scripture ; Faith; Charity and Good Works ; Free Will; Repentance; Reformation and Regeneration ; Imputation ; Baptism; The Holy Supper ; The Consummation of the Age; the Second Coming of the. Lord; the new Heaven and the New Church. There are, also, interspersed between the chapters, relations of things seen and heard in the spiritual world. Conjugial Love. Pp- 472. #1.25. 1. Conjugial Love and its chaste delights. 2. Adulterous Love and Us sinf ul pleasures. A work which treats of the relation and constitutional difference of the sexes; of the indissoluble nature of true marriage; of the nature and origin of love truly conjugial ; of the marriage of the Lord and the 15