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84 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
illumined author, whoever he is, ( is it Mr. Law ?) must expect a considerable
army of gown- men to draw their pens against him : it is a blessing their power
is prescribed within impassable bounds.
" ’
The favor of a line ia answer, to know what dependance 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 publication of Mr. Hutchin-
son’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 Swedenborg personally, was the late
Mr. Servante, who was the principal editor of the New Jerusalem Magazine^ published
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. Servante was one of the earliest promoters 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 23d August, 1817, in his 76th year, died Mr. Henry Servante. As a
member of the New Church, he was, in London, one of the earliest promoters
of its doctrines, having been, many years since, engaged in the publication of
the New Jerusalem Magazine, a work which contains much interesting and useful
information. As a true Christian, he endured with patient and pious resigna-
tion his share of those trials and sufferings which are experienced to be so high-
ly conducive to the regenerate life. Beloved and respected as he was by his
relatives and friends, to whom his exemplary mildness and humility had endear-
ed him, they cannot fail to blend the tear of tender regret, with their sincere con-
gratulations on his advancing state. He was’ amiable in his life, and expired
with little or no previous illness, as in the sweetness of sleep, without a struggle
or a sigh.
" Mr. Servante was descended from a respectable family in the south of France,
a branch of which fled to this country, on the revocation of the edict of Nantz,
to preserve the freedom of their religious sentiments. He had himself been
from his youth a sincere seeker after religious truth, and had undergone severe
anxieties in consequence of not being able to obtain the satisfaction which he
wanted : but at length meeting, by apparent accident, with one of those parts of
the second volume of the Arcana, which were published in English at the same
time as the Latin original, his former doubts were instantly removed, and the
light of truth shone at once into his mind, bringing with it a clearness of con-
viction which was never afterwards obscured, but was more and more illustrated
to the day of his decease. The reader may also feel an interest in being inform-
ed, that he was one of the last remaining individuals who remembered the per-
son of Swedenborg, though at the time he saw him he did not know him. He
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