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TESTIMONY OF THE REV. T. HARTLEY. 43
" We parted with mutual satisfaction ; and he presented by me, to the said
Di’. Celsius, an elegant copy of his Apocalypsis Revelata, then lately printed at
Amsterdam.
" I should have improved this personal acquaintance, but Swedenborg went
soon afterwards on his last travels, from which he did not return : he died in
London, and was buried in the cemetery of the Swedish church."
In a letter addressed by Mr. Collin to the Rev. John Hargrove, of Baltimore, dated
Philadelphia, March 16, 1801, which was lately found among the papers of Mr. H.
after his decease, Mr. C. states respecting Swedenborg as follows :
—
" Swedenborg was universally esteemed for his various erudition in mathe -
matics, mineralogy, &c., and for his probity, benevolence, and general virtue.
Being very old when I saw him, he was thin and pale ; but still retained traces
of beauty, and had something very pleasing in his physiognomy, and a dignity
in his tall and erect stature. On my requesting his aid in procuring an inteview
with a brother lately deceased, he answered very properly, that the partition-
wall between this and the other world could not be opened without some im-
portant cause, and not to gratify mere curiosity. When I come to Baltimore,
sometime this spring, I shall tell you more.—I am, &c.
" Nicholas Collin."
IV.
TESTIMONY
OF
THE REV. THOMAS HARTLEY, M.A.,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG.
Mr. Hartley has left his testimony respecting Swedenborg on record in the prefaces to
the English editions of the works On the Intercourse between the Soul and the Body, and
On Heaven and Hell, and in a letter to the translator of The True Christian Religion, the
Rev. J. Clowes, M.A., Rector of St. John’s, Manchester, inserted in the preface to that
work. In the first of these prefaces, Mr. H. says respecting his author
—
*’ I have conversed with him at different times, and in company with a gen-
tleman of a learned profession and of extensive intellectual abilities : we have
had confirmation of these things from his own mouth, and have received his
testimony, and do both of us consider this our acquaintance with the author and
his writings among the greatest blessings of our lives. The extensive learning
displayed in his writings evinces him to be the scholar and the philosopher; and
his polite behavior and address bespeak him the gentleman. He affects no
honor, but declines it ;
pursues no worldly interest, but spends his substance in
travelling and printing, in order to communicate instniction and benefit to man-
kind : and he is so far from the ambition of heading a sect, that wherever he re-
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