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Doc. 270.] 607
HINDMARSH ON WESLEY.
saith, ’The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant
above his lord. It is enough for the disciple to be as his
master, and the servant as his lord: if they have called the
master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they
call them of his household’ (Matt. x, 24, 25). And again,
"
The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have per
secuted me, they will also persecute you
’ (John xv, 20) . In
all ages of the church, Divine Truth has been persecuted in
the persons of those who have been its most strenuous asserters
and advocates; and in general according to the degree in
which they have manifested their sincerity, integrity, and
faithfulness in the discharge of their duty, in the same degree
have they been subjected to the derision and scorn of the
world. It was not therefore to be expected, that Swedenborg,
the distinguished and devoted servant of his Lord , would
escape the malevolent and bitter attacks of his enemies, who,
either through ignorance of the doctrines he taught, or through
envy at their success, are disposed to treat the disciple in
the same ungenerous manner as their predecessors of old
treated his Divine Master. But as Michael the archangel,
in disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, (the
historical sense of the Word,) durst not bring against him
.
a railing accusation, so it is the duty of those who are
engaged in the defence of a good cause, to imitate so
illustrious an example, and to leave all judgment to Him
who cannot err."
Before the interview had been arranged between Messrs.
Beatson, Hindmarsh, and the others, and Mr. Brockmer, and
thus before it was known that that gentleman denied point
blank the specific grounds on which Mr. Wesley, abetted by
Mathesius, sought to establish the charge of insanity against
Swedenborg (see p. 586), Mr. Hartley, Chastanier, and others
had endeavoured to establish the real facts out of which
the slanderous account of Mathesius had been manufactured.
Mr. Hartley, it seems, found by his investigations that Sweden
borg really had been ill at one time during his stay in London.
The result of his investigations is contained in his letter to
Mr. Clowes published in 1781 as an Introduction to the English
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