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604 REFUTATION OF FALSE REPORTS. [Doc. 270.
so angry at his leaving them, that they spread a report that
he was mad."
From all this it appears that not only Mathesius, but also
Brockmer had some share in the production of the account
published by Mr. Wesley in the "Arminian Magazine ;" and
although it seems as if the resentment which the latter origin
ally bore against Swedenborg had in a great measure subsided,
when he was interrogated by Messrs. Beatson, Hindmarsh,
and others ; indeed, so much so that he was able to acknowledge
the falsity of several of the statements that appeared in the
published account, he still cannot be accepted as a perfectly
fair and impartial witness in re Swedenborg v. Mathesius
and Wesley. We consider ourselves therefore fully justified
in refusing to receive as historically true the following state
ment which Brockmer persisted in making when interrogated
by the above gentleman, viz. that "Swedenborg once called
himself Messiah;" in which statement Brockmer stands entirely
alone among those who have borne testimony respecting Sweden
borg from their own personal knowledge ; or in which he is
at best supported by Mathesius.
Although the falsity of Mathesius’ account of Swedenborg,
as published by J. Wesley in the "Arminian Magazine, " had
been thoroughly demonstrated in the "Magazine of Knowledge"
for 1791 , this account was nevertheless afterwards reprinted
and circulated very extensively among the Methodists, and in
1819 was pointedly referred to by the Rev. J. G. Pike of
Derby in a pamphlet entitled, "Swedenborgianism depicted in
its true Colours." The attacks of the Rev. Mr. Pike were
met by Robert Hindmarsh in a work entitled, " Vindication
of the Character and Writings of the Honourable Emanuel
Swedenborg," Manchester, 1821. In the first Section of that
work he devoted a chapter to the "Refutation of the false
reports propagated by Mr. Wesley; " and after repeating
some of the statements which Mr. Brockmer had made in his
presence, and which we have given above from the "Magazine
of Knowledge," he summed up the whole case, as follows :
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