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TESTIMONY OF THE LATE REV. JOHN CLOWES, A.M. 231
-eternally united with Him in His Kingdom !* Eliezer signifies ’ God: is my
help ;’ and he has been graciously and friendly helped by God. He was a pious
child, made good progress, and was called home by a happy death in the 25th.
year of his age. The youngest son was called Jesper merely on this account,
because he was born on the same day, and in the same hour, as myself who
iirst saw the light of the world on the 28th August, 1653. If the name Jesper
be written nSDT yisper (he will write), it has corresponded to the deed ; for I can
scarcely believe that *"
ly body in Sweden has written so much as I have done ;
since, I think, ten carts ould scarcely carry away what I have written and printed
at my own expense, and yet there is much, yea, nearly as much not printed.
And my son Jesper had the same inequation, for he wrote much, and with
pleasure.
" 26. I am a Sunday-child (that is, born on a Sunday), and the mother, my
late wife, was also a Sunday-child, and all my children are Sunday-children,
except Katharine, who was born at Upsal on the 3d day of Easter. I have
kept my sons to that (profession) to which God has given them inclination
and liking ; and I have not brought up one to the clerical office, although many
parents do this inconsiderately, and in a manner not justifiable, by which the
Christian Church, and also the (clerical) order suffer not a little, and is brought
into contempt. I have never had my daughters in Stockholm, where many
reside in order to learn fine manners, but where also they learn much that is
worldly and injurious to the soul."
XLIX.
TESTIMONY
OF
THE LATE REV. JOHN CLOWES, A.M.,
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND RECTOR OF ST. JOHN’S, MANCKESTEK
.
IN FAVOR OF SWEDENBORG’S THEOLCJGICAL WRITINGS.
We shall conclude this volume of" Documents, &c. concerning Swedenborg" by adduc-
ing the testimony of this highly venerated clergyman. In a Memoirf written by himself,
he gives an account of the manner irx which he became acquainted with Swedienborg’s
theological writings. After stating his views respecting the great superiority of these
writings, he concludes thus :
—
*’ The author (of this Memoir) cannot conclude his narrative, without offering
up to the Father of Mercies his most devout and grateful acknowledgments for
* Emanuel Swedenborg was forty years of age when this was written by his father, and
it is plain, we think, that the cause of the old bishop’s gratitude and praise to God on ac-
count of hi* son, was, ihat he had led a pious and useful life, thus confirming what is else
where said of Emanuel Swedenborg, that his life was a life of extraordinary dihgence and
usefulness, and of unfeigned piety.
—
Ed. Int. Rep.
t See Memoir of the late Rev. J. Clowes, A.M., Rector of St, John^s, Manchester, 8fc.
;
written by himself.
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