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532 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 261.
He spoke much for half-an-hour, but we could not understand
what he was saying, except when he dropped his hands, when
we heard him say with a loud voice, "My God!" but could
not hear more. He remained afterwards very quietly in his
bed. 1 stepped into his room with the landlord, and asked
whether he was ill. "No," said he, "but I have had a long
discourse with the angels and the heavenly friends, and am at
this time in a great perspiration." As his things had been
taken on board, he asked the landlord for a fresh shirt and
a fresh sheet. Afterwards he went to bed again, and slept
till morning. When the captain of the vessel called for Sweden
borg, I took leave of him, and wished him a happy journey:
having then asked the captain, if he had a good supply of
provisions on board, he answered me that he had as much as
would be required. Swedenborg then observed, “ My friend, we
have not need of a great quantity; for this day week we
shall, by the aid of God, enter into the port of Stockholm at
two o’clock. " On Captain Dixon’s return, he related to me
that this happened exactly as Swedenborg had foretold. *
13. Two years afterwards Swedenborg returned to London,
where we continued our former friendship. He told me, that
he had sent his works to the bishops of Sweden, but without
result, and that they had received him with the same indiffe
rence that he had experienced from the bishops of England.
What a remarkable change I noticed among the bishops in
London. I had witnessed myself with what coldness he was
received by them before his departure for Sweden, and I saw
that on his return he was received by them with the greatest
civility. I asked him how this change could have come, when
he answered, "God knows the time when His church ought
to commence."
14. His intimate friends were the Rev. Thomas Hartley ;¹
the late doctor in Philosophy Hampe, a learned man, who
had been preceptor to George II, and also Messiter,2 a doctor
of medicine ; but Mr. Hartley, a man of profound learning,
* See Document 230, p. 250, where Swedenborg states, that "the trip
from England was made in eight days ; a favourable wind increasing to a
perfect storm carrying the ship along in this style."
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