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Doc. 270.] 605
HINDMARSH ON WESLEY.
D.
R. HINDMARSH225 ON J. WESLEY238 AND MATHESIUS,119
1. "It appears, then, that the report of Baron Sweden
borg’s having been seized with a fever, in the height of which
he broke from Mr. Brockmer, ran into the street naked, and
proclaimed himself the Messiah, is totally false. But even
supposing it to be true, that he once had a fever accompanied
with delirium, an affliction to which the wisest and best of
men are subject, what has this to do with the general tenor
of his writings, composed while he was in perfect health? Is
the character of a man to be estimated by what he says or
does in such a state ? Would Mr. Wesley, or any other person,
wish to be judged in this way?
2. "Mr. Brockmer died a few months after he made the
declaration above recited : but the peruke-maker alluded to
by Mr. Wesley, namely, Mr. Richard Shearsmith, who lived
in Cold Bath Fields, Clerkenwell, and at whose house Sweden
borg afterwards lodged and died, survived Mr. Brockmer many
years. Him also I well knew, and have often had occasion
to speak to him of the character, habits, and manners of
Swedenborg: and he uniformly gave the most unequivocal and
honourable testimony concerning him, both with respect to
the goodness of his heart, and the soundness of his under
standing. He declared himself ready to attest, (upon oath, if
required,) that, from the first day of his coming to reside at
his house, to the last day of his life, he always conducted
himself in the most rational, prudent, pious, and Christian-like
manner : and he was firmly of opinion, that every report
injurious to his character had been raised merely from malice
or disaffection to his writings, by persons of a bigoted and
contracted spirit.’ Mr. Shearsmith has been dead now for
some years. I saw him not long before his death ; and he
continued to bear the same testimony, which he had so often
repeated in my hearing during the course of the thirty years
that I had known him.
3. "The other person, whom Mr. Wesley names as having
given him the same information as Mr. Brockmer had done,
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