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Doc. 6.] 61
PERNETY’S ACCOUNT.
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practised that morality which he taught; and when on his
return he was informed of the wicked machinations of his
persecutors, having been taught by experience to what extent
they were capable of going, he addressed a petition to the
King in the form of a letter, which is as follows:
[Here Pernety inserts the whole of that letter which
Swedenborg addressed to the King, dated the 10th of May
or June, 1770, and which will be found in Section IX in
Swedenborg’s Correspondence from 1747 to 1772.]
Pernety continues: It is known that essential Truth has
been hated and rejected; that its children by whom it was
preached, have been despised and persecuted: ought we then
to be astonished at the persecution of a disciple of the truth
at a time when false wisdom, under the illustrious name of
Philosophy, while seeking to destroy the truth and to estab
lish itself upon its ruins, has gained by its tinsel and glitter
the respect and admiration of men.
14. In London also a Moravian brother or Hernhuter,*
and a clergyman, the curate of the Swedish Church, † were
bent upon calumniating Swedenborg : the former, probably,
in order to avenge himself for what Swedenborg had written
concerning his sect; the latter because he was an enemy of the
Swedish Councillor of Commerce, Mr. Springer121, who resided
in London, and declared himself a friend of our author. In
spite of the efforts made by his enemies to injure his reputa
tion, and to deny his merit and his virtues, he was neverthe
less well received at the Court of Sweden, during his sojourn
in Stockholm . He was invited there to dine with the whole
Royal family; and the Senator Count Höpken ,28 as well as
the Senator Count Tessin,59 two very estimable men, declared
themselves openly to be his friends, and frequently visited him .
15. The Councillor von Sandels13 made a visit at one
time to Swedenborg, and seeing a quantity of manuscripts,
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* Mr. Brockmer, at whose house Swedenborg resided at one time: the
whole of this charge is investigated in Section X.
+ The Rev. Mr. Mathesius: the charge made by him is investigated
in the same place.
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