The Rose of Sharon a Religious Souvenir
by Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (9781150409349)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: A. Tompkins and B. B. Mussey Subjects: Gift books American poetry History / General Poetry / American / General Religion / General Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Christian Life / Devotional Religion / Devotional Religion / Christian Ministry / Discipleship Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. 1IT D. H. BARLOW. The name of Swedenborg may be known to most, and to many it' may be familiar. And yet to the vast majority, I suspect, it is little else except a name. The history of the man, and especially his peculiar opinions, religious and philosophic, are slightly, if at all, more familiar to the public generally, than those of Mother Anne Lee and the Shakers. It is not very easy to account for this. For Swedenborg, with his pretensions and dogmas, offers a problem the most singular and curious to be found in history. It is, too, a problem which the Christian, the moralist, and even the mere philosopher, will alike find deserving of careful examination. Thus consider, first, who and what was the man. He was a noble, -- made such in compensation of important services to his country. Remarkable for a learning alike various and vast, he was an especial proficient in mathematical and physical science, -- a fact commonly held to imply a clear, solid, steady temper, unapt to be hurried away by enthusiasm, or thralled by illusions of fancy. He was, too, peculiarly independent, as also throned high in the general respect and esteem, and therefore utterly without inducement to seek notoriety by putting forward strange assumptions, fitted to draw about him a marvelling throng. In fact,...

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