Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
Doc. 270.1 603
BROCKMER’S ACCOUNT.
3. That he ever broke from him in a delirious state, and
ran into the street, proclaiming himself the Messiah.
4. That Swedenborg ever looked frightful or wild.
5. That he ever foamed at his mouth.
6. He acknowledged, that he had heard a report, that
Baron Swedenborg had rolled himself in the mire ; but he
did not see it himself, and was only told so.
We see therefore that Mr. Brockmer, the authority to
whom both Mathesius and Wesley appeal for the truth of
their charges against Swedenborg, gives them both the direct
lie in respect to the leading points which Mathesius raises
against Swedenborg in nos. 6 to 10 of his relation ("Arminian
Magazine" for 1781), and in respect to those which were
advanced against him by Mr. Wesley in no. 2 of his account
("Arminian Magazine" for 1783).
The editors of the "Magazine of Knowledge" add to this
(Vol. II, p. 95), "In addition to the above it may be observed,
that Mr. Brockmer was one of the people called Moravians ;
and it has been judged by many, not without some reason,
that he had conceived a prejudice against Swedenborg, because
in certain parts of his writings he cautions his readers against
the dangerous errors of the Moravians, and particularly speaks
of Count Zinzendorf, their head, whom he had seen in the
spiritual world, as one who denies the Divinity of the
Lord."*
According to Chastanier (Document 270, F, no. 3) Sweden
borg himself declared, "that the whole of this false rumour
had been spread by that good Moravian, Mr. Brockmer, who
could not forgive him for what he had written about the
Moravians at the end of his tract, called the ’Continuation
concerning the Spiritual world,’ and who had sworn that he
would avenge his sect for the injury that had been inflicted
upon them by Swedenborg."
Besides we read in Document 266, no. 1, that according
to the testimony of Shearsmith,226 "Swedenborg left Fetter
Lane, because the persons he lodged with [ Brockmer] used
to meddle with his papers," and also that "these people were
* See "Continuation of the Last Judgment," nos. 86 to 90.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
