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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...is acquired by truth, which is attended with combats against evils and falses; the seventh day is the second state of regeneration when good and truth are conjoined, and man is led by the Lord without combat, thus, when he is in heaven and the tranquillitv of peace, 8506, 8510, 8888, 8891, 9271, 9274; particularly, 9431, 10,360, 10,667--10,668, 10,730, cited below, A sabbath is the state when good is conjoined to truth, and this sabbath is called the rest of the Lord, because he then leads by good, 8510. Man can only be led by good, thus by the Lord, in the state of peace represented by the sabbath; and if in this state he incline to lead himself, even by truth, the state of peace is dissipated, 8517. The sabbath denotes the heavenly marriage of good and truth, by which is meant good implanted by truths, and afterwards formed by truths, which is heaven itself in man, and therefore most holy, 8889, cited 9296, 9741 end. The sabbath denotes the states of union and conjunction mentioned above (8495, etc.), and it is called a sign between Jehovah and the sons of Israel, because those who acknowledge this conjunction are known thereby in heaven, and are distinguished as belonging to the church, from those who are not of the church, 10,357, 10,370, 10,372. Six days' labor before the sabbath, denotes the state which precedes and prepares for the heavenly marriage, thus the combats which man must undergo before he can be of the church, or be in the state of good in which he is led by the Lord, passages cited 9431, br. 10,353, ill. and sh. 10,360, and citations. In the supreme sense, six days of labor denotes the Lord's combats with 'the hells, when he was in the world, before he united the human to the divine; but the sabbath, his state of union or rest, when the h...
