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Doc. 259.] 515
HARTLEY’S LETTER TO CLOWES.
of credit may be allowed to that work, the share which that
estimable man had in it may be ascribed to him; and this
also is said for the satisfaction of his surviving friends. I am
to observe, that Mr. Cookworthy was at the whole expense of
the publication.
26. "As the credibility of Swedenborg’s extraordinary dis
pensation, in respect to his commerce with the invisible world,
would receive addition from his private good character, I was
accordingly led to call upon him by letter to publish some
particulars of himself, for the satisfaction of the public, which
he answered, giving me some account of himself and family,
which was confirmed to me by some who well knew him in
his own country, together with the honours with which he was
dignified there as a member of the House of Nobles, by the
high esteem in which he was held by the Royal Family in
Sweden, and also by the most pious and excellent men of
that kingdom, as also with some other memorable particulars,
not here to be mentioned. The above-mentioned letter to me*
I have given in my translation of a small treatise written by
our author, ’On the Nature of Influx,’ under the prefixed title
of a Theosophic Lucubration.’ I am to observe here, that I
am indebted to Christopher Springer, Esq.,121 formerly member
of the Diet in Sweden, who has resided in London many
years, for many satisfactory circumstances relating to his life
and character.
27. “And yet the great Swedenborg, who employed his
peculiar talents and the greater part of a long life for the
benefit of his brethren, high in honour and esteem as he was,
lived several years in an obscure lodging in London in which
he ended his days. O Lord, how wonderful are Thy dealings
with Thy most favoured servants, to bring them into a con
formity to Thy low and abject state on earth, in order to
exalt them to that glory which thou hast prepared for them!
28. "I saw him in the beginning of his last illness, and
asked him if he was comforted with the society of angels as
before, and he answered that he was. I returned home, about
a day’s journey from London, and heard soon after that he
* It constitutes Documeat 2 in Vol. I.
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