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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS WRITINGS. 95
them concerning the Lord, and the nature of man’s duty
of life to him, and that Swedenborg overthrew the tenets
of his opponent, who appeared but a child to him in
knowledge. Mr. Burkhardt added, that Swedenborg was
a holy, good man, much given to abstraction of mind ;
that even when walking out he sometimes seemed as
if in private prayer, and latterly took but little notice
of things and people in the streets. After his decease he
was carried to this person’s house, and buried from
thence.
"In 1785, Mr. Keene went down into the vault of the
Swedish Chapel, and saw his coffin, which lies next to
Dr. Solander’s.’
In connexion with these anecdotes of Swedenborg
during his residence in London, we insert the first
public advertisement of his writings which was in 1750 :
"Paternoster-Row, Feb. 5, 1750.
"Advertisement, by John Lewis, printer and publisher,
in Paternoster-Row, near Cheapside, London. Be it
known unto all the learned and curious, that this day
is published, the first number of Arcana Calestia, or
Heavenly Secrets, which are in the Sacred Scriptures, or
Word of the Lord, laid open; as they are found in the
xvi. chapter of Genesis : together with the wonderful
things that have been seen in the world of spirits, and in
the heaven of angels.
" This work is intended to be such an exposition of
the whole Bible as was never attempted in any language
before. The author is a learned foreigner, who wrote
and printed the first volume of the same work but last
year, all in Latin, which may be seen at my shop in
Paternoster-Row, as above-mentioned.
"And now the second volume is printing, both in
Latin and English ; to be published in cheap numbers,
that the public may have it in a easier manner, in either
tongue, than in whole volumes.
"It must be confessed that this nation abounds with a
variety of commentaries and expositions on the Holy
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