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1170 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
Restored, in the seventh chapter, is an account of his interview
with the bishop of his diocese, Dr. Porteus, on occasion of a com
plaint respecting the doctrines he constantly taught; and nothing
can be more open and manly than the statement which Mr. Clowes
made to the bishop on that occasion. And the bishop dismissed
him without even the smallest censure. By degrees all opposition
gave way before the most convincing of demonstrations,-that of
his pure, affectionate, and truly Christian life. The fruits of his
doctrines, as evinced in his own person, were undeniably most ex
cellent. Thus, when he had attained the fiftieth year of his ministry,
an elegant piece of sculpture, the work of the great master, Flax
man, himself a New Churchmann, was erected by subscription in his
Church, the most active promoter of which was a gentleman who
had formerly carried a complaint of his doctrine to the bishop, but
who, though he never was a convert to his sentiments, became so
impressed with the excellences of his character as to be most desirous
thus to perpetuate the record of them as an example to posterity.
Mr. Clowes died on June 4, 1831, in the eighty-eighth year of
his age.
A Memoir, written by himself, and enriched by a number of his
letters, appeared in London in two editions; the second edition was
published in 1849. A more comprehensive life, the work of Theodore
Compton, Esq., based chiefly on materials collected by the late
George Harrison, appeared in 1874. To these two works we refer
the reader for lists of Mr. Clowes’s writings.
NOTE 219.
WILLIAM COOKWORTHY.
Mr. W. Cookworthy, was one of the earliest receivers of the New
Church doctrines, and was personally acquainted with Swedenborg.
Mr. Provo, in Document 263, p. 539, gives some account of Cook
worthy’s interview with Swedenborg ; further particulars respecting
this interview are contained in Document 315. Mr. Hartley, besides,
relates that the translation of "Heaven and Hell," which he saw
through the press, was begun and carried on to a considerable
extent by Mr. Cookworthy, but was afterwards revised by himself.
He states also that Mr. Cookworthy was at the whole expense of
the publication. He is also mentioned as the translator of the first
quarto edition of the "Doctrine of Life," which was published at
Plymouth in 1763.
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