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602 REFUTATION OF FALSE REPORTS. [Doc. 270.
the fact, because he did not see it himself, but was only
told so.
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3. "Mr. Brockmer was then asked, whether another ac
count of Baron Swedenborg, given by Mr. Wesley in his
’Arminian Magazine’ for January, 1781, was true or not. [ See
Document 270, B, p. 586. ] After reading it, he replied, "That
to the best of his knowledge and recollection, some things in
that account were true; that other things were absolutely false ;
and that the whole was exaggerated and unfairly stated.’ He
said it was true, that Swedenborg once called himself the
Messiah ; but not true that he always persisted in it, whenever
he saw him afterwards, as Mr. Wesley insinuates. It was
true that his hair stood upright, for as he wore a wig, it
was necessary to keep his hair cut short, in which case any
person’s hair will stand upright; but it was not true that he
looked frightful or wild, for he was of a most placid and
serene disposition. It was true that he had an impediment
in his speech, and spoke with earnestness ; but not true, that
he foamed at the mouth, as Mr. Wesley had represented him.
4. "The following question was then put to Mr. Brockmer,
’Supposing it to be true, that Baron Swedenborg did actually
see and converse with angels and spirits, did you ever observe
any thing in his behaviour, that might not naturally be ex
pected on such an extraordinary occasion ?’ He replied in
words to the following effect: ’If I believed that to be true,
I should not wonder at anything he said or did ; but should
rather wonder that the surprise and astonishment which he
must have felt on such an occasion, did not betray him into
more unguarded expressions than were ever known to escape
him; for he did and said nothing but what I could easily ac
count for in my own mind, if I really believed what he
declares in his writings to be true.’ "
Mr. Brockmer, therefore, denied the truth of the following
points which had been raised against Swedenborg by J. Wesley
or Mathesius :
1. That he ever gave information respecting Swedenborg
to Mr. Wesley.
2. That Swedenborg ever was afflicted with a fever at his
house.
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