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iv. ENGLISH EDITOR’S PREFACE.
numbered (XXXII.) 1, 2.—XXXIV—XXXVII—XXXVIII—XXXIX—XL-XLI—XLII
XLIII—XLIV—XLV—XLVI—XLVII—XLVIII, besides a few insertions of minor mo-
ment in the earlier part of the volume. In some few cases the articles are not arranged
in precisely the order into which they would most appropriately fall, but this was owing
to various causes which the reader could not appreciate so well as the editor, and as the
collocation is of comparatively little account, the reader will be satisfied to know that
everything intended to be inserted is to be found somewhere in the volume.
A few additional notes have been here and there inserted, which are indicated by the
letter B.
G. B.
JTew-Yorky Sept. 20, 1847.
ENGLISH EDITOR’S PREFACE.
We here present to the English Reader the following " Documents concerning the Life
and Character of the Hon. Emanuel Swedeuborg." They were collected and edited with
great care in the German language by the learned Dr. J. F. I. Tafel, of Tubingen. As
the theological writings of Swedenborg are beginning to be extensively read throughout
Europe and America, a great call has been made for a Biography of this distinguished and
enlightened author. These " Documents" were collected as materials to compose his
biography, " but as (says Dr. Tafel,*) these Documents, when properly arranged, form a
complete body of information, which can, with great propriety, be published by itself, I
have thought it proper to present them to the public as a forerunner to the Biography
iiself, to which I am now devoting all the time I can spare."
With respect to the following work, the Editor begs to observe, that he has arranged the
*’
Documents" in a manner somewhat different from that adopted by Dr. Tafel, and that he
has also added a few testimonies in favor of Swedenborg’s writings from distinguished in-
dividuals, such as Oberlin, the pious and celebrated pastor of Waldbach ; and the late
Rev. John Clowes, Rector of St. John’s, Manchester; also Swedenborg’s Address in his
senatorial character as member of the House of Nobles, to the Estates of the Realm assem-
bled at the Diet in 1761. The arrangement which the Editor has adopted is as follows :
he has placed those Documents first which contain the testimonies of individuals who
personally knew Swedenborg ; secondly, he hns inserted those Documents, which testify
most unequivocally to Swedenborg’s intercourse with the spiritual world ; and thirdly, he
has concluded the volume with letters and documents relating, either directly or indirectly,
to Swedenborg and his important claims, as a theological writer, upon the attention of
mankind.
The Editor begs also to observe, that the " Introductory Observations, 4*c-" are printed
from the English edition of Sandel’s Eulogium, of which they form the Preface, and that
the notes to the Eulogium, subscribed " editors,’’^ are from the same edition ; other notes,
subscribed " Tafel,’’^ were written by that gentleman ; and for those to which no name
is subjoined, the Editor is responsible.
* See his Preface.
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