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1216 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
governor of hell, the Devil, sometimes orders the spirits that behave
ill, to be laid on a bed of ashes."" Swedenborg teaches nowhere
that there is a governor or a chief in hell understood by the "Devil,"
but he teaches that the evil spirits of hell collectively are understood
in the letter of the Word by the Devil and Satan.
With respect to Wesley’s own ideas on marriage : he at first
recommended celibacy ; but he married in 1749. His married life,
however, was so unhappy, that he was at last divorced from his
wife. He died in 1791.
NOTE 239.
J. I. HAWKINS.
The well-known engineer, John Isaac Hawkins, who furnished
Mr. Noble with John Wesley’s testimony respecting Swedenborg
contained in Document 268, p. 565, was the son of the Rev. Isaac
Hawkins, who had been a local preacher among the Methodists, but
in 1806 was ordained a Minister of the New Jerusalem Church. On
the occasion of his father’s death, which occurred in 1820, when he
was eighty-two years old, Mr. Hawkins furnished to the "Intellectual
Repository" the following account of the manner in which his father
had received the doctrines of the New Church. "While he was still
a local preacher among the Methodists, Mr. James Hindmarsh, [the
father of Robert Hindmarsh,220] was one of the travelling preachers
sent out by Mr. Wesley, and he was appointed for two years to
the circuit in which Mr. Hawkins lived . Mr. Hindmarsh and Mr.
Hawkins became exceedingly attached to each other, and their
friendship continued through life. In the year 1783 , Mr. Hawkins
settled in London ; a year or two after which Mr. Hindmarsh met
with the writings of Swedenborg, and becoming convinced of their
inestimable value, he felt an anxious desire to share his spiritual joy
with his bosom friend ; he accordingly sought him and put into his
hand the treatise on ’Heaven and Hell.’ Mr. Hawkins had, for some
time previous, seen great inconsistencies in the doctrines of the
Methodists ; but he had not met with anything to satisfy his mind,
until he found it in this work. He read it with the utmost avidity,
and read it again; and such was his conviction of the Divine Truths
it inculcated, that he imagined all the Methodists would receive
them as readily as he himself had done ; he therefore purchased all
the works of our illuminated author then translated into English,
and lent them to his friends, whenever he had an opportunity. An
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