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564 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 268.
spoke of them, except when he was asked, in which case he
gave precise answers. When he was contradicted, he kept
silence.
4. Ferelius asked him about the well-known story concern
ing the unexpected answer, which he gave to Queen Louisa
Ulrica; whereupon he answered, " She asked me about a
circumstance, which no one in the whole world knew except
herself and her brother, who was already dead ; and when I
conveyed to her an answer, she was so much overcome, that
she almost fainted. This is the truth about it. "
5. When Ferelius at one time visited Swedenborg, he said,
"Just now the apostle Peter has been with me; there he stood. "
6. Ferelius saw Swedenborg’s manuscripts ; they were all
written out in a clear hand, without his having first made a
rough draught. Nowhere could a single word be found
crossed out ; but all that was once written, remained written,
just as if it had been dictated. "
DOCUMENT 268.
JOHN WESLEY’S238 TESTIMONY CONCERNING
SWEDENBORG IN 1772, AND 1773.*
"Among Mr. Wesley’s preachers, in the year 1772, was
the late Mr. Samuel Smith, a man of great piety and integ
rity, who afterwards became one of the first ministers in our
church. Having heard a curious anecdote, said to rest on
his authority, I wrote (says Mr. Noble,) to Mr. J. I. Hawkins,²
the well-known engineer, who had been intimately acquainted
with Mr. Smith, to request an exact account of it. The
following (a little abbreviated) is his answer; it is dated
February 6th, 1826 :
239
* The whole of this Document is taken from the Rev. S. Noble’s237
"Appeal in behalf of the Doctrines of the New Church," (Sterotype
edition, pp. 243 to 249 ;) whence it was introduced into the English and
American editions of the "Swedenborg Documents."
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