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TESTIMONY OF DR. MESSITER. 37
was commissioned by him as an extraordinary messenger
to the world, and had communication with angels and
the spiritual worlds far beyond any since the time of the
apostles. As such, I offer his character to the world,
solemnly declaring that, to the best of my knowledge, I
am not herein led by any partiality or private views what
ever, being much dead to every worldly interest, and
accounting myself as unworthy of any higher character
than that of a penitent sinner.’
What Mr. Hartley here says of himself is unques
tionably true : for he was well known to many of the
religious characters of that day as a man of the deepest
piety, and he was at this time [ 1781 ] very far advanced
in years, and near the end of his earthly career: to the
testimony of such a man to the character of Swedenborg,
what exception can be made ?*
TESTIMONY OF DR MESSITER,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG.
The " gentleman of a learned profession and of ex
tensive intellectual abilities," mentioned by Mr. Hartley
above, was the late Dr. Messiter, an eminent physician of
that time. What his opinion of Swedenborg, the result
of personal acquaintance, was, appears from his corres
pondence with the Professors of Divinity at Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and Aberdeen ;t to which Universities, by
desire of Swedenborg, he, in 1769, presented some of his
Mr. Hartley was the author of a volume of sermons, and of
other works, inculcating the christian life, as well as the trans
lator of two of Swedenborg’s works, entitled the Intercourse
between the Soul and the Body, and the Heaven and Hell.
† See Intellectual Repository, Vol. iii. (first series) p. 449, &c.
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