Excerpt from Dissertations on the Regenerate Life: In Harmony With the Theological Views of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Undoubted Messenger of Our Lord's Second Advent
The "Dissertations on the Regenerate Life," have gone through several editions in England, and one edition in this country, and have always been held in high regard as introductory to the doctrines of the New Church. A desire has often been expressed that an edition might be published, in a form to subserve the interests of the Church, in this country, at the present time, and this edition is offered to the Church, with a view of supplying this want.
The author, Mr. Arbouin, as we learn in a brief biography by Rev. W. Mason, was of an ancient and highly respectable family of France. He was born at Lisbon, and received a liberal education at one of the public schools of London. In addition to the knowledge of Greek and Latin which he there acquired, he became an accomplished French scholar, and had some knowledge of Italian. He was, at one time, a leading merchant in London, and, when in the tide of worldly prosperity, and from his distinguished talents and mercantile knowledge, was usually fixed upon to form one of those deputations which frequently attend the minister of the day, upon matters connected with the trade and revenue of the country.
To the man of business, he united the more elegant accomplishments of the gentleman of refined taste and education, which, added to great liveliness of manner, brilliancy of imagination, and highly agreeable and polished behavior, attracted to his social board men in the higher classes of society, eminent alike for their knowledge and talent.
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