ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 5)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 5)

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With respect to the priests, they ought to teach men the way to heaven, and also to lead them; they ought to teach them according to the doctrine of their church from the Word, and to lead them to live according to it. Priests who teach truths, and thereby lead to the good of life, and so to the Lord, are good shepherds of the sheep; but they who teach and do not lead to the good of life, and so to the Lord, are evil shepherds.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 315)

ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 4)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 4)

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Governors over those things with men which relate to heaven, or over ecclesiastical affairs, are called priests, and their office is called the priesthood. But governors over those things with men which relate to the world, or over civil affairs, are called magistrates, and their chief, where such a form of government prevails, is called king.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 314)

ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT (pt. 3)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL GOVERNMENT
(pt. 3)

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There must ... be governors to keep the assemblages of men in order, who should be skilled in the law, wise, and who fear God.

There must also be order among the governors, lest anyone, from caprice or ignorance, should permit evils which are contrary to order, and thereby destroy it.

This is guarded against when there are superior and inferior governors, among whom there is subordination.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 313)