Why did Swedenborg accept any New Testament books?

Based on [this question](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/43971/what-writings-are-held-as-biblical-canon-by-swedenborgians) we see that Swedenborg denied most of the New Testament as being divinely inspired. >Swedenborg did not reject the rest of the books of the Protestant Bible. He considered them "good books of the church" (see link below). However, he saw them as historical, instructional, and doctrinal writings *rather than as divinely inspired books of the Word of God.* (emphasis added) However he accepted the four Gospels and the book of Apocalypse as being divinely inspired. *Why* did he even accept these five books as inspired?