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REFUTATION OF MR. WESLEY’S FALSE REPORTS. 145
the subject to Mr. Wesley, nor had he ever given such
an account to any other person ’ and he seemed much
displeased, that Mr. Wesley should have taken the liberty
to make use of his name in public print, without his
knowledge or consent. Swedenborg (said he, ) was
never afflicted with any illness,* much less with a
violent fever, while at my house : nor did he ever break
from me in a delirious state, and run into the street
stark naked, and there proclaim himself the Messiah,
as Mr. Wesley has unjustly represented. But perhaps
he may have heard a report to that effect from some
other person ; and it is well known, that Mr. Wesley is
a very credulous man, and easily to be imposed upon by
any idle tale, from whatever quarter it may come.’
" I then put the following question to Mr. Brockmer :
Supposing it to be true, that Swedenborg did actually
see and converse with angels and spirits, did you ever
observe any thing in his behaviour, that might not natu
rally be expected on such an extraordinary occasion ?’
He replied as follows : ’ If I believed that to be true, I
should not wonder at any thing he said or did ; but
should rather wonder, that the surprise and astonishment
which he must have felt on such an occasion, did not
betray him into more unguarded expressions than were
ever known to escape him : for he did and said nothing,
but what I could easily account for in my own mind, if
I really believed what he declares in his writings to be
true.’
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" It is to be observed, that Mr. Brockmer was one of
the people called Moravians, who are by no means friendly
to the doctrines of the New Church, as laid down in the
writings of Swedenborg. The testimony, therefore, of
such a man in favour of the equable and becoming
deportment of his noble lodger, and to the silencing of
those unfounded reports, to which Mr. Wesley (once an
admirer of Swedenborg and his writings, but afterwards
* That Swedenborg enjoyed excellent health, and was never
known, in his own country, to have had a violentfever, is asserted
above by M. Sandel ; see p. 23, and note.
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