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DOCUMENT 287.
PRESERVATION FROM FIRE OF SWEDENBORG’S
"APOCALYPSIS EXPLICATA."
Robert Hindmarsh, 225 in his "History of the Rise and
Progress of the New Jerusalem Church" (pp. 32 et seq.) relates
as follows:
"A remarkable circumstance worthy of being recorded, took
place while I was printing the first volume of the Apocalypsis
Explicata in 1785. Mr. Peckitt, 229 as one of the Editors, had
in his possession the manuscript of the second volume, containing
from the 7th to the 11th chapters inclusive. By some accident
a fire broke out in his neighbourhood at midnight, which soon
extended its ravages to his house. In the alarm and confusion
in such cases, the firemen and others endeavoured to save
whatever property came first to their hands ; but while in the
act of performing so dangerous an office, the house fell in,
and covered them with its ruins ; from which, however, they
were afterwards extricated without much injury. Mr. Peckitt
himself, who assisted in the removal of his goods, till the flames
compelled him to quit the house, narrowly escaped with his
life; and it was not till the next morning, when the agitation
of his mind was somewhat abated, that he bethought himself
of the manuscript volume of the Apocalypsis Explicata ; which
he now concluded must have been burnt, with the immense
multitude of other books which were consumed. What added
to his distress was the recollection, that the manuscript was
in his desk in the parlour, and that desk was destroyed.
"Early on the next morning he visited the ruins, yet with
slender hopes of recovering what he now considered as the
most valuable jewel which had been in his possession, and
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