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FIRST RECEPTION OF HIS WRITINGS. 101
embraced the truths it contains, expressing the satis
faction he derived from it. Though not a document of
any decided importance, it is interesting as a curiosity,
and as evincing that the truths of the New Church found
some receivers on their very first publication. This letter
was sent to the Daily Advertiser, formerly a popular
newspaper, of Christmas-day, 1749, by the publisher of
the work, and is introduced by his business-like note to
the Editor, as follows:
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66 SIR,
"If you will insert the following letter in your paper,
it may induce the curious in the learned world to peruse
a work very entertaining and pleasant, and oblige, Sir,
yours, &c., " JOHN LEWIS.
"To Mr. John Lewis, in Paternoster-Row, Cheapside,
London.
’Dartmouth, October 15, 1749.
’MR. JOHN Lewis,
"
Sir,-Accidentally reading the advertisement of the
Arcana Calestia, excited by the oddness of the title, I
presently ordered my friend in London to send me one.
The extraordinary degree of pleasure the reading of it
has given me, and the yet more expected from what more
is to be published, induces me to request advice as often
as any new publication happens, which I apprehend to
be designed annually. My reason for troubling you, is,
because I very rarely see any of the public papers, and,
consequently, future advertisements may escape my know
ledge ; which, I hope will excuse me.
I have long ardently wished to see the historical part
of the Old Testament, which seems only to regard the
Jewish dispensation, (and upon that account is too lightly
regarded by the major part of the present Christian
world, proved to be as delightful, instructive, and as
necessary for the knowledge of Christians as the New.
This Arcana Calestia gives me the fullest satisfaction of.
But the illumined author, whoever he is, ( is it Mr. Law ?)
must expect a considerable army of gown-men to draw
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