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522 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 260.
will in due time more fully appear, as a light shining in a
dark world, to check the progress of infidelity, to diffuse the
right understanding of the Sacred Scriptures, and to turn
many to the knowledge of the Lord. I am sure that you join
with me and many more in this good wish, and remain,
Dear Sir,
"Your affectionate humble servant,
DOCUMENT 260.
"T. HARTLEY."
TESTIMONY OF DR. H. MESSITER.2*
A.
DR. MESSITER TO THE PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AT EDINBURGH.
"October 23, 1769.
"Rev. Sir,
"As I have not the honour of knowing your
name, I hope you will not attribute that deficiency in the
superscription to a want of respect towards the professor of
a science which I have ever held in the greatest veneration.
The Hon. Mr. Swedenborg has desired me to send you, as a
present, some of his late Tracts, which, should you think
proper to peruse them, I doubt not but you will consider
them as very extraordinary, and certainly more proper to be
submitted to the scrutiny of gentlemen of your dignity and
profession, than to that of those whose want of a proper scale
of literature but ill qualifies them to judge of their sublimity.
As I have had the honour of being frequently admitted to
the author’s company when he was in London, and to con
verse with him on various points of learning, I will venture
* The above correspondence was first printed in the "Intellectual Re
pository," Vol. III (first series), p. 449 et seq.; and was introduced thence
into the several editions of the "Swedenborg Documents."
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