I. There is no true Church
unless God is One, and unless He is Jehovah God under a human
form–and thus that God is man and man God.
II. The doctrinals contained
in True Christian Religion agree with the doctrinals of those of the
Roman Catholic Church, and with the doctrinals of those of the
Protestants, who acknowledge a personal union in Christ, and
approach Christ, and who partake of the two elements in the
Eucharist.
III. Various causes why now,
for the first time, and not before, the above truths of the church
[have been revealed]. Among these causes is this, that the New
Church is not established before the former church is consummated.
IV. The Divine Providence in
these matters:
From the heresies which arose after the
time of the Apostles.
Why the Romish Church arose.
The causes of the separation from that
Church, [as from] an unworthy mother.
Why the Greek Church separated from the Romish.
V. Various things concerning
miracles; that they have destroyed the church (also from the Lord's
words in Matt. 24).
VI. That all things tended
in this direction, that men who were called saints were to be
invoked.
VII. That this Church is not
instituted and established through miracles, but through the
revelation of the spiritual sense, and through the introduction of
my spirit, and, at the same time, of my body, into the spiritual
world, so that I might know there what heaven and hell are, and that
in light I might imbibe immediately from the Lord the truths of
faith, where man is led to eternal life.
VIII. The Advent of the Lord
(from the Word and the creeds).
IX. Invitation to the New
Church, that men should go and meet the Lord (from Rev. 21-22; and
also from Chap. 1, etc.).
X. Hereafter they are not to
be called the Evangelical, the Reformed, and still less Lutherans
and Calvinists, but Christians.
XI. Several things
concerning miracles.
