On the Worship and Love of God; translated from the original Latin.

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Two rare translations of Swedenborg bound together. The first, De Cultu et Amore Dei was a product of Swedenborg's spiritual crisis. As an interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis, its subject matter foreshadows his later biblical exegesis, although it has a markedly poetic and uniquely Ovidian sensibility. One footnote alone, in which he described the formation of the firmament, particularly impressed Coleridge, who commented 'Note (b) would of itself suffice to mark Swedenborg as a man of philosophic genius, radicative and evolvent'. The first work COPAC locates in the BL only. The second work ESTC locates in Bodley, Academy of the New Church, and Harvard only, with COPAC adding only microfilms in NLS and York. The ESTC entry (and the ECCO scan of the Bodleian copy) do not call for a half-title in that work (present here and giving a price of 1s 6d), nor for advertisements at the end, here giving 3 pages of books 'Printed and sold by R. Hindmarsh, printer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' - two pages of works in English and one in Latin, all Swedenborgian.See: Leonard Martin Edmisten, Coleridge's Commentary on Swedenborg (University of Missouri, 1954) p. 235.