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28 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
"As to this world’s wealth, I have what is sufficient,
and more I neither seek nor wish for.*
"Your letter has drawn the, mention of these things
from me, with the view, as you suggest, that any ill
grounded prejudices may be removed.-Farewell ; and
from my heart I wish you all felicity both in this world
and the next ; which I make no doubt of your attaining,
if you look and pray to our Lord.
" EMAN. SWEdenborg.
"London, 1769."
Now if the writer of this letter really was invested with
the character he assumes, could any thing be more suited
to that character than the whole of its contents ? Does
not every sentence and expression in it bespeak the truly
humble, pious, and heavenly-minded man ? Could any
one who falsely pretended to what the author professes,
write of himself in a manner so perfectly in accord with
the pretensions assumed ? Would it be possible for an
impostor, whether hypocritical or self-deluded, to assume
that air of genuine simplicity, inward composure, and
unfeigned contentedness, which reigns throughout the
whole ?
TESTIMONY
OF
THE REV. N. COLLIN, OF PHILADELPHIA,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG.
We next adduce a confirmation of the statements in
the above letter, together with a comment on its contents,
by the Rev. Nicholas Collin, Rector of the Swedish
Church in Philadelphia. This gentleman did not pro
* This remark is an answer to an offer by Mr. Hartley, to
supply him with money, should he have occasion for it.
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