True Christian Religion (Chadwick) n. 837

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837. Since the Africans surpass the rest in powers of inward judgment, I was able to engage in conversation with them about matters requiring deeper thought. I have recently talked with them about God, the Lord the Redeemer and the interior and the exterior man. As this discussion delighted them, I shall report some of the matters they perceived by inward sight on those three subjects.

About God they said that He had certainly come down and made Himself visible to human beings, because He is their Creator, Protector and Guide, and the human race is His. They said that He sees, examines and supplies every single thing that is in the heavens or on earth; and He regards what is good for them as if in Himself and Himself as in them. The reason is that He is the sun of the heaven of the angels, and is to be seen as high above the spiritual world as the terrestrial sun is above the natural world; and one who is the sun must see, examine and supply every single thing which is below. Because it is His Divine love which appears as the sun, it follows that He supplies to the greatest as to the least the necessities of life, and to human beings the things that concern love and wisdom. Things to do with love are supplied by means of the sun's heat, those to do with wisdom by means of its light. So if you form for yourself an idea of God as the sun of the universe, you will be sure from that idea to see and acknowledge His omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence.


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