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Doc. 259.] 501
REV
. T. HARTLEY’S TESTIMONY.
rebuke, and blasphemy of the enemies of our faith continue
to mock the patient hope of the Christian ; and will not the
Lord send some enlightened Seer with a message of peace
and comfort to His people, some Caleb to testify unto them
of the good land which he hath seen, and also bearing with
him a cluster of the fruit of it, for their encouragement to
go up to possess it?
2. "He has done this in the person and writings of the
Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg, who for these five-and
twenty years past has been favoured with an open vision of
the spiritual worlds, and still continues to enjoy the same, and
to communicate to his brethren many curious, wonderful, and
instructive discoveries, relating to his converse with angels and
the things of their kingdom, as may be seen in his other
writings : so that infidels can now no longer plead that challenge
in excuse of their unbelief: ’Shew us one who can testify of
these things from his own knowledge, and we will believe ;’
for such a witness, and a credible one too, is alive at this day.
3. "I have conversed with him at different times, and in
company with a gentleman of a learned profession and of
extensive intellectual abilities [Dr. Messiter’] : we have had a
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. We cannot doubt but that
the same evidence, which has appeared credible to us, must
appear the same to many others : and where men of liberal
minds and education think otherwise, this single line will ami
cably settle the difference betwixt us, Veniam petimusque damus
que vicissim [ Freedom we ask from you, and are willing to
grant to you]. But where any wrong bias, bigotry to a
system, worldly interest, or a confirmed habit of unbelief,
lead any to a determined opposition, there argument must
lose its force on any subject, for non persuadebis etiam si
persuaderis. [Convince a man against his will, he’s of the
same opinion still.]
4. "As the Author, when in England last summer, was
called upon in a letter from a friend (to the truth of which
I can fully testify) to give some account of himself for the
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