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810 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
he confided, he had scarcely allowed himself the common
necessaries of life lest he should injure his creditors ;-such
men could not commit an act of gross dishonesty.
"The MS. of the Apocalypsis Explicata having thus passed
again into the hands of the Peckitt family, came, after the
death of his mother, into the possession of Mr. Henry Peckitt,
and was handed over by him to the London Printing Society,
in or about the year 1828. Its receipt is acknowledged in
their report, published in June, 1829."
C.
DOCUMENTARY ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND INSTALMENT OF THE SWEDENBORG
MSS. BROUGHT TO ENGLAND IN 1788.
In a biographical notice of Wadström by Mr. J. A. Tulk
(see Note 36), we read : "This gentleman came from Stock
holm to London prior to the year 1790, and brought with him
many of the MSS. of Emanuel Swedenborg, such as the ’Diary’
and others. He was a man zealous in the propagation of
the New Doctrines, and had been one of the members of the
Exegetical Society established in Stockholm for the same pur
pose. In the year 1790, he had a meeting of the friends of
the New Church weekly at his lodgings near Tottenham Court
Road, and was chief editor of the ’New Jerusalem Magazine.’ "
The original MSS. which he brought with him, as will
appear in the sequel, were nos. 2, 3, 6, and 7 of the missing
MSS., specified in subdivision A of the present document.
Besides, he brought with him copies of the following MSS.,
viz. 1. Canones Novæ Ecclesiæ, 2. De Domino et de Athanasii
Symbolo, 3. Doctrina de Charitate, 4. De Ultimo Judicio et
Mundo Spirituali, 5. Colloquia cum Angelis, 6. Invitatio ad
Novam Ecclesiam, 7. Coronis seu Appendix ad Veram Christianam
Religionem.
Mr. Wadström arrived in London with these MSS. in 1788,
as appears from the following footnote on p. 62 of the " New
Church Quarterly, " Vol. I : " From the preface to Wadström’s
Essay on Colonization, which was published at London in 1794,
we learn that he was in Sweden in 1787, .... and in London
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