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1166 NOTES TO VOLUME II
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NOTE 217.
STEPHEN PENNY.
Stephen Penny of Dartmouth was one of the first receivers of
the doctrines taught by Swedenborg, as appears from a letter which
he addressed in 1749 to John Lewis, the publisher of the Arcana
Cœlestia, on the appearance of the first volume of that important
work (Document 258, B). From the "Memoir of Wm. Cookworthy,"
referred to in Note 219, it appears that Stephen Penny was a friend
of Mr. Cookworthy, and that "he was, not improbably, the means of
bringing the Arcana under Mr. Cookworthy’s notice." In 1769
Mr. Stephen Penny, who then styled himself an "accomptant," pub
lished in Bristol a little work bearing the following title: "Letters
on the Fall and Restoration of Mankind, addressed to all the serious
part of every denomination." This little book may be looked upon
as the first work explanatory of the doctrines of the New Church.
In 1769 it was followed by a poem, entitled : "An Incentive to the
Love of God, from a view of his goodness in the creation and
redemption of man ;" to this the author also added an essay "On the
Happiness of Love."
NOTE 218.
REV. JOHN CLOWES.
The Rev. John Clowes, Rector of St. John’s, Manchester, was
an indirect contributor to the "Documents concerning Swedenborg"
from having induced the Rev. T. Hartley, who was personally
acquainted with Swedenborg, to enrich Mr. Clowes’s translation
of the "True Christian Religion" with a beautiful tribute to
the life and character of Swedenborg, a great part of which we
have introduced into Document 259 (pp. 511-521). He has also
been instrumental in preserving an important expression respecting
Swedenborg from the lips of John Wesley,238 which is recorded
in Document 268 (pp. 568 and 569). But, besides, he ranks in
the first place as a translator of almost all the works of Sweden
borg into English, and thus occupies a most prominent place in the
bibliography of Swedenborg’s writings, for which reason his name
is of frequent occurrence towards the close of Document 313,
Section XII. The following account of his life and character is
gathered from an address by the Rev. Samuel Noble at a
meeting of the three societies of the New Church in London, to
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