LETTER IL

S», I haye shown in my firat letter tbe similarity of Swedenborg ànd Spinoza on the doctrines of God ; of Modes ; of kmis of Knowledge ; of Salvatùm^ &c. ; and as thèse are ail important doctrines, necessarily having an influence over those who hold them, it inight be expected that a likeness should also appear in other portions of the works of thèse men. 1 am now to show that this is the case in some remarkable particulars ; in doing which there will be some further confirmations of wbat bas already been adduced.

VIL Swedenborg. " The Esse of God, or the Di- Tine Esse, cannot be described, because it is above every idea of human thought, into which [human tfiought] nothing else faits than what is created and finite, but not what is uncreate and infinité; thus not tbe Divine Esse." True Chn. Relig. page 16.

Spinoza^ treating of God, says, ^'It any one should ask me to give an example for the full explication of what is hère intended, I must reply, that no instance can adequately explain what is in itself tmiqueJ*

Ethics, part 2, prop. 8, schoL

TIIL Swedenborg. " The Divine Esse is esse in itaelf, and at the same time existere (existence) in itself." True C.R. page 16.

Spinoza, " Existence belongs or pertains to the nature of a substance." Ethics, part I, prop. 7.

IX. Swedenborg. " The Divine Esse and Existere in itself cannot produce another divine, that is,. esse and existere in itself: consequently another God of the same essence is not possible." T. C. R. p. 16.

Spinoza. ''One substance cannot produce another substance." Ethics, part 1, prop. 6. — ^And the conclusion of the démonstration is, that << there cannot be b

many substances, but only one." And prop. 14 is, that " No substance can be conceived except God." The above I note as remarkable.

X. Swedenborg. ^' In relation to subsistence, ail finite things. produced in the way hère described, [i. e. from the Infinité] do actually suhsist firom the same cause and mode, which brought them into existence."

Principia, page 64 Spinoza. ^^ Gôd is not only the cause éi tfae beginning of the existence of things, but of their continuanctt in existence." Ethics, part 1, prop. 24, corail.