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696 ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES. [Doc. 278.
death at all; wherefore, if any one is asked about his decease
in the world, it seems to him as if he was asked about a
thing which has not happened. Besides, it is difficult to meet
with any one who departed this life twenty-seven years ago ;
for he is then firmly established in some society, where it is
difficult for me to enter. Should I ask the angels on this
subject, they have no such knowledge at all, and as to inter
rogating the Lord Himself concerning it, it is too- small a
matter. As to the rest I desire [for you] the Lord’s blessing."
DOCUMENT 278.
THE REV. F. OKELY257 ON SWEDENBORG. *
"Baron Swedenborg is to me a riddle. Certainly,
as you say, he speaks many great and important truths ; and
as certainly seems to me to contradict Scripture in other places.
But, as he told me, I could not understand his Vera Christiana
Religio without a Divine illumination ; and I am obliged to
confess that I have not yet a sufficiency of it for that purpose.
I am thankful, my present course does not seem absolutely
to require it.
"We conversed in the High Dutch; and notwithstanding
the impediment in his speech, I understood him well. He
spoke with all the coolness and deliberation you might expect
from any, the most sober and rational man. Yet what he said
was out of my sphere of intelligence, when he related his sight
of, and daily conversation in, the world of spirits, with which
he declared himself better acquainted than with this."
* This Document is extracted from a letter addressed by the Rev.
F. Okely to the Rev. J. Wesley on December 10, 1772. It was printed
by the latter in the "Arminian Magazine" for 1775, Vol. VIII, p. 552.
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