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102 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
their pens against him: it is a blessing their
prescribed within impassable bounds.
power is
The favour of a line in answer, to know what de
pendance I may make upon you, will very much oblige,
Sir, your most humble servant,
STEPHEN PENNY.
’P.S. Perhaps the author was concerned in the pub
lication of Mr. Hutchinson’s works ? Has he published
any other work, and at what price ?’"
To this the bookseller appends the following notice :—
"This large Latin book is neatly printed in 4to.; and
sold by Mr. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katharine
street, in the Strand; Mr. Ware, at the Bible on Ludgate
hill ; and by John Lewis, printer of the same, as above
mentioned : price 6s. unbound."
Connected with those who knew something of Sweden
borg personally was the late Mr. Servanté, who was the
principal editor of the New Jerusalem Magazine, pub
fished in 1790. This testimony is chiefly valuable on
account of the portrait of Swedenborg in advanced age,
engraved by Martin, the fidelity of which is singularly
proved. As Mr. Servanté was one of the earliest pro
moters of the doctrines of the New Church, we shall
adduce the brief memoir concerning him, which, soon
after his death, was inserted in the Intellectual Repository
for 1817, p. 514 :
"On the 23rd August, 1817, in his 76th year, died Mr.
Henry Servanté. As a member of the New Church, he
was, in London, one of the earliest promoters of its doc
trines, having been, many years since, engaged in the
publication ofthe New Jerusalem Magazine, a work which
contains much interesting and useful information. As a
true Christian, he endured with patient and pious resig
nation his share of those trials and sufferings which are
experienced to be so highly conducive to the regenerate
life. Beloved and respected as he was by his relatives
and friends, to whom his exemplary mildness and humility
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