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TESTIMONY OF DR. MESSITER. 39
superscription to a want of respect towards the professor
of a science which I have ever held in the greatest
veneration. The Hon. Mr. Swedenborg has desired me
to send you, as a present, some of his late Tracts, which,
should you think proper to peruse them, I doubt not but
you will consider them as very extraordinary, and cer
tainly more proper to be submitted to the scrutiny of
gentlemen of your dignity and profession, than to that of
those whose want of a proper scale of literature but ill
qualifies them to judge of their sublimity. As I have
had the honour of being frequently admitted to the
author’s company when he was in London, and to con
verse with him on various points of learning, I will
venture to affirm, that there are no parts of mathematical,
philosophical, or medical knowledge, nay, I believe I
might justly say, of human literature, to which he is in
the least a stranger ; yet so totally insensible is he of his
own merit, that I am confident he does not know that he
has any ; and, as himself somewhere says of the angels,
he always turns his head away on the slightest encomium.
What he knows of the most interesting and noble science
of all, I most humbly submit, Sir, to your better judg
ment: yet I must say, that though I have read much of
the historical and mystical proofs of the truth of Scrip
ture, I have never yet met with any assertions so
wonderfully affecting the mind of man ; and wherever I
have read of anything of this nature approaching in some
measure to the gift of our author, it has generally been
delivered by persons whose education would scarcely
secure them from the censure of enthusiasm or imposture.
I should be glad, Sir, to be honoured with a line from
you when you get the books, and happy to receive your
opinion when it may be suitable to you to confer that
favour on me.- I am, Sir, with the greatest respect, your
most obedient and most humble servant,
"H. MESSITER.
"At Broom House, Fulham, Middlesex. "
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