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610 [Doc. 270.
REFUTATION OF FALSE REPORTS.
worth while ; these good Israelites by this action have injured
themselves more than me. May the Lord have pity on them.’
3. The other circumstance which helped to originate this
false story, was communicated to me by another person, who
died several years ago. This person, whose name was Brooks
bank (Brocksbank), was very well acquainted with Swedenborg,
and was informed by him, that the whole of this false rumour
had been spread by that good Moravian, Mr. Brockmer, who
could not forgive Swedenborg for what he had written about
the Moravians at the end of his tract, called ’Continuation
concerning the Spiritual world,’ and who had sworn that he
would avenge his sect for the injury which had been inflicted
upon it by Swedenborg. It is certain that Swedenborg un
masked this heretical sect, and sectarians do not like to be
unmasked.
4. "Mr. Springer informed us yesterday that Mathesius,
who had succeeded in supplanting the good Pastor Ferelius,
and who is now in Sweden, had become mad, and had in con
sequence of this been suspended from his ministry, and recalled
to Stockholm, where he is now living on a pension granted by
the King. Brockmer has not shared the same fate, but he is
living at present in London upon the poor rate."
We close our present document with the following remarks
by the Rev. S. Noble extracted from his "Appeal," (p. 243)
on the subject of Mathesius’ insanity:
G.
REV. S. NOBLE231 ON MATHESIUS,118
"We are by no means prone to assume the
distribution of Divine judgments ; but it really is difficult to
avoid thinking that we behold one here. All must allow it
to be a remarkable coincidence, that the man who first im
puted insanity to Swedenborg, and was the chief cause of its
being believed by others, should himself have experienced the
deplorable visitation ; which happened, also, soon after he gave
the information to Mr. Wesley. The Abrégé des Ouvrages
d’Em. Swedenborg, which was published at Stockholm in 1788,
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