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90 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
in a few days, it pleased the Lord to call him to himself,
to bestow on him the reward of his useful labours. *
"After Dr. Beyer had read the writings of Sweden
borg, he became so convinced of the truths contained
therein, that he declared, not only to many individuals
among the clergy, but likewise in the public consistory,
his full assent to all the doctrines revealed in those works.
This was the cause of the violent persecution he endured
to the end of his life, which is, in some measure, evident
from the letters+ which passed between him and Emanuel
Swedenborg."
ANECDOTES OF SWEDENBORG
WHEN IN LONDON,
COLLECTED BY MR. PROVO.‡
May 2, 1787, Mr. Provo called on Mr. Bergstrom,
who keeps the King’s Arms Tavern, in Wellclose-square ;
who, in a conversation of an hour’s length, related to him
as follows :
" I was personally acquainted with Assessor Sweden
borg he frequently called on me, and once lived ten
* This relation was received by one of the editors of the New
Jerusalem Magazine, published in 1790, from Mr. Wenngren,
mentioned above, in the year 1786, who was then living at Got
tenburg, and was one of the magistrates of that place.
These letters will be adduced below.
These Anecdotes were inserted in the Intellectual Repository
for January, 1836, by the Rev. S. Noble, who, in a letter to the
Editors of that work, gives the following account of them :
" GENTLEMEN,
"In my Appeal in Behalfof the Doctrines ofthe New Church,
&c.,’ I have made some use of the following Anecdotes. Except
as to the extracts given there, they have never been printed.
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