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Doc. 269.] 579
CHASTANIER’S TESTIMONY.
Mr. Hindmarsh says, "Mr. Gomm, on receipt of this affidavit
translated it into French, and caused it to be printed at the
Hague; by which means the false report, that had gained
credit there, was completely refuted, and the enemies of truth
on this occasion were effectually silenced."
He afterwards continues, " Besides the proof, above adduced,
of the falsehood of the report of Swedenborg’s having recanted
his writings, another arises from the evidence of Count Höpken,
who in a letter to General Tuxen, dated Skenninge, May 21 ,
1773, expressly says, "
The late Swedenborg did not, on his
death-bed, recant what he has written; of which I have
particularly informed myself."" [See Document 252, p. 411. ]
D.
BENEDICT CHASTANIER’S222 TESTIMONY.
The substance of Shearsmith’s affidavit was published in
the preliminary discourse to a work entitled : "Abrégé des
Ouvrages d’Em. Swedenborg
" (Abridgment of the Works of
Em. Swedenborg), published in Strasburg and Stockholm in
1788, and the editor added to this the following statement:
"To this affidavit we will add, having received it from credit
able persons, that a few days before Swedenborg’s death his
intimate friend addressed him in the following manner ; ’In
the name of God, in whose presence you are soon going to
appear, and in the name of sacred friendship, declare to me,
I beseech you, whether that which you have written is the
truth.’ Swedenborg answered him, ’My doctrine is true, it
has been revealed to me; and after 1780 it will spread very
much,’" (p. lxxi.)
An English translation of this statement appeared in the
"New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790, p. 226 ; and to this
Benedict Chastanier222 added the following declaration : "As
a strong confirmation of the above testimony, I, Benedict
Chastanier, A. M., surgeon of No. 62, Tottenham Court Road,
am happy in being able to declare, that I had it from the
mouth of the late Rev. Mr. Hartley, that he was the very
friend alluded to in the above article ; for this respectable
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