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ANECDOTES COLLECTED BY MR. ROBSAHM. 87
gardener, who was present, to retire, but Swedenborg
commanded him to stay. The conversation went on,
and both turned over the Hebrew and Greek Bibles, to
shew the texts that were agreeable to their assertions : at
length the conversation finished, by some observations
tending as reproaches to the bishop on his avarice, and
various unjust actions : you have already prepared your
self a place in hell, said Swedenborg ; but, added he, I
predict that you will some months hence be attacked with
a grievous illness, during which time the Lord will seek
to convert you. If you do then open your heart to his
holy inspirations, your conversion will take place. When
this happens, write to me for my theological works, and
I will send them to you. In short, after some months
had passed, an officer of the province and bishoprick of
Skara came to pay a visit to Swedenborg. On being
asked how the Bishop Hallenius was ; ’ He has been very
ill, (replied the officer) but at present he is well recovered,
and has become altogether another person, being now a
practiser of what is good, full of probity, and returns
sometimes three or four fold of property, for what he had
before unjustly taken into his possession .’ This bishop was
from that time, even to the hour of his death, one of the
greatest supporters of the Doctrine of the New Church
of the Lord, and declared openly, that the theological
writings of Swedenborg were the most precious treasures
given for the welfare of mankind.
"Swedenborg was of a very mild temper, yet just, and
incapable of perverting truth, for human respects or any
other motive. Mr. Robsahm having asked him if a cer
tain curate, who was greatly esteemed in the capital on
account of his flowery sermons, and who was lately
deceased, had a place in heaven ? No, said Swedenborg,
he went directly into the abyss ; for this ecclesiastic left
his devotion in the pulpit : he was not pious, but a
hypocrite, proud, and greatly vain of the gifts he had
received from nature, and the goods of fortune he was
continually seeking to acquire. Truly, said he, false
appearances will stand us in no stead hereafter ; they were
all separated from him after his decease ; the mask has
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