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Excerpt from The Practical Nature of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg: In a Letter to His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, Occasioned by His Observations on That Subject in His Essays on Some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion IN the Essays on some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion, by His Grace the present Arch bishop Of Dublin, occurs the following passage rela tive to the receivers Of the writings Of Swedenborg Though his followers insist much on the importance of believing in this pretended revelation, it would, I believe, be difficult for them to state even any One point on which a man is called upon to alter either his conduct, his motives, or his moral sentiments, in consequence of such belief. The system furnishes abundant matter of faith and food for curiosity but has little or no intelligible reference to practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.