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REFUTATION OF THE FALSE REPORT
THAT SWEDENBORG,
A FEW HOURS BEFORE HIS DEATH ,
HAD RETRACTED HIS WRITINGS.
This report was first propagated in Holland ; it was
not heard of till several years after Swedenborg’s death.
As the receivers of Swedenborg’s writings in Holland
were greatly concerned to hear this report, especially as
it was said to have emanated from the persons at whose
house Swedenborg lodged and died, they wrote to Mr.
Robert Hindmarsh, in London, requesting him imme
diately to inquire of the persons in question, who were
still living, and to ascertain whether the report were true
or false. The following is Mr. Hindmarsh’s letter, in
reply to the inquiry from Holland, together with the
affidavit, taken before the Lord Mayor of London, by Mr.
and Mrs. Shearsmith, at whose house Swedenborg died :
66 SIR,
"I am in possession of the most authentic proof of
the falsity of the report you mention to have gained credit
in Holland, regarding Baron Swedenborg’s having dis
owned, or retracted, his doctrines and communications
when he was drawing near his end. The persons in
whose house he lived, and where he died, upon being
told this circumstance, freely offered, of their own accord,
to take their oaths before a magistrate, that the whole of
the said report is totally void of foundation, to the best of
their knowledge. You will see this accordingly confirmed
by the inclosed document, sworn to in the presence of the
Lord Mayor of this city, and of which you are at full
liberty to make whatever use you may think proper, in
order to destroy the influence of so malevolent an insinu
ation. Allow me to add here, what I have further learnt
from Mr. Springer, a Swedish gentleman residing here,
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