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REV. F. OKELY. 1243
he inherited a large and valuable library which was especially rich
in documents concerning Swedenborg. Lars von Engeström during
his life-time appointed a librarian, and made his library accessible
to the public. By royal permission this library has now been
embodied with the Royal Library in Stockholm. Many important
documents of the present collection have been derived from it, viz.
Documents 1, 3, 137, 138, 139, 141 , 167, A, 277, 300, 302, 303.
NOTE 257.
REV. F. OKELY.
The Rev. Francis Okely, whose testimony concerning Swedenborg
is contained in Document 278, was, according to Chalmers’s Bio
graphical Dictionary, "a learned, but somewhat enthusiastic divine.”
The same authority states, that "he was born in 1718, and educated
at the Charterhouse, and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where
he took his B. A. in 1739. At this time he appears to have
conceived those notions which interrupted his regular advance
ment, and was ordained deacon in the Moravian Church. He after
wards offered himself as a candidate for priest’s orders in the Church
of England; but, when the bishop intimated the invalidity of his
first orders, Mr. Okely would not be ordained priest on such terms,
and therefore adhered, through life, to the Moravian congregations,
and was highly esteemed by the few who lived in communion with
him, on account of his piety, benign temper, and liberal sentiments.
He died at Bedford on May 9, 1794, in his seventy-sixth year. The
peculiar turn of his mind may be understood from the titles of his
publications: (1) A translation from the High German, of "Twenty-one
Discourses, or Dissertations, upon the Augsburg Confession of Faith,
delivered by the Ordinary of the Brethren’s Churches before the
seminary,’ 1754, 8vo. (2) ’Psalmorum aliquot Davidis Metaphrasis
Græca Joannis Serrani, 1770, 12mo. (3) The Nature and Necessity
of the new creature in Christ, stated and described according to
the heart’s experience and true practice, by Johanna Eleonora de
Mellari : ’ translated from the German, 1772, 8vo. (4) ’The Divine
Visions of John Engelbrecht,’ 1781 , 2 vols., 8vo. (5) A faithful
Narrative of God’s gracious dealing with Hiel,’ 1781, 8vo. (6) ‘A
Display of God’s Wonders, done upon the person, &c., of John Engel
brecht,’ 1781. (7) ’The indispensable necessity of Faith, in order to
the pleasing of God: being the substance of a discourse preached
at Eydon in Northamptonshire,’ 1781 , 8vo."
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