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ANECDOTES COLLECTED BY MR. ROBSAHM. 73
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himself, he did it with mildness and in few words ; but if
any one would not be convinced, and became warm in
argument, he retired, saying, Read my writings atten
tively and without prejudice, they will answer you in my
stead, and will afford you reason to change your ideas
and opinions on such things.’
"He used, at first, freely to speak of his visions and
spiritual explications of the Scriptures ; but as this dis
pleased the clergy, who proclaimed him a heretic and
madman, he resolved to be less communicative of his
knowledge in company, or, at least, more cautious, lest
the censorious should have room to blame what they
could not comprehend like himself. Mr. Robsahm
once addressed the rector of the parish where he lived,
(an old and respectable clergyman,) asking him what
he should think of Swedenborg’s visions and expla
nations of the Bible ? The venerable man answered,
GOD alone can judge of this, but I cannot think him to
be such a person as many do : I have myself conversed
with him, and in companies where we have been together,
I have found him to be a good and holy man.
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"
"It was remarkable, that Swedenborg never
deavoured to persuade any person to receive his opinions ;
he was once asked, whether it might be possible for
any one, but himself, to arrive at the same degree of
spirituality ; he replied, Take good care, for the natural
man lays himself open to temptations, when, by his own
speculations, he tries to find out celestial things that
transcend his understanding.’ He then declared, how
the Lord has taught us in the Lord’s Prayer to pray,
Lead us not into temptation ; which means, that we
ought not, from our own power and knowledge, to doubt
of the divine truths revealed to us ; I never thought,
added he, I should have come into the spiritual state in
which I am ; but the Lord had prepared me for it, in
order to reveal the Spiritual Sense of the Word, which
HE had promised in the Prophets and the Revelations.’
" An ecclesiastic, who was a follower of Zinzendorf,
and a doctor of divinity in Gottenburg, undertook to
oppose the writings of Swedenborg ; but after having first
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