From the time of his alleged " call," he wrote and published almost constantly initil his death. The Ar- cana was finished in 175G. His succeeding works are. An Account of' the Last Judgment, and the Destruction of Babylon ; showinr/ that all the Pi-edictions in the Apocalypse are at this Day Fulfilled: Being a Relation of Things Heard and Seen (Loud. 1758) : — Concerning Heaven and its Wonders, and concerning Hell; from Things Heard ami Seen (ibid. 1758) : — The Four Tread- ing Doctrines of the New Jerusalem, viz. Concerning the Lord, Sacred Scriptm-e, Faith, and Li fe (Amster. 1763): — Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom (ibid. 1763) : — Angelic Wisdom concern- ing the Divine Providence (ibid. 1764) : — The Ai)ocalyj)se Revealed, ivherein are Disclosed the A rcana there Fore- told, which have hitherto Remained Concealed (ibid. 1766) : — The Apocalypse Explained according to the Spiritual Sense; in which are Revealed the Arcana tvkich are there Predicted and have been hitherto Deeply Concealed (published after his death, in 5 vols. 8vo), a much larger and fuller work than the preceding: — The Delights of Wisdom concerning Conjugal Love : after which follow the Pleasures of Insanity concerning Scortatory Love (Amster. 1768). The True Christian Religion, contain- ing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel vii, 13, 14, and in Revelation xxi, 1, 2 (ibid. 1771), contains his body of divinity, and is di- vided into fourteen chapters, under appropriate heads. There are also a number of minor treatises and tracts. All these works were written originally in Latin, and were distributed by the author to the principal univer- sities and seats of learning.
In addition to his philosophical acquirements, Swe- denborg was learned also as a Hebrew and Greek scholar. He died in London, March 20, 1772, maintaining to the last the truth of his alleged disclosures. He did not attempt to collect congregations, nor organize a church. For an account of the followers of his doctrines, see New Jerusalem Church. (W. B. H.)
Sweet, Elisha, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born at Gorham, Ontario Co., N. Y., in 1810. He was admitted into the Genesee Conference in 1847, in which conference and the East Genesee he spent his ministerial life, three years of which he was superannuated. He died Sept. 7, 1869. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1870, p. 281.
Sweet, John Davis, a Baptist minister, was born at Kingston, Mass., Oct. 16, 1838. He was the son of a Unitarian clergyman. From his early life he devel- oped a marked taste for literary pursuits, and in his preparatory studies took high rank as a scholar. In the fall of 1857 he entered Harvard College, one year in advance, and distinguished himself by his application to his college tasks. Having overworked himself, he sought to recruit his health by foreign travel. Return- ing home, he embarked in business; but, his friends urg- ing him to direct his attention to the ministry, he aban- doned his secular pursuits, and was ordained as pastor of the Baptist Church in Billerica, Mass., in October, 1863, where he remained nearly five years — 1863-68 —
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securing in a marked degree the affection of liis Church and the respect of the people of the village in which he had his home. lie was publicly recognised as pastor of the First IJaptist t'luirch in Somerville, ^Mass., ]May 4, 18IkS. He liad commenced his work in the new tiehl of ills labor, and was prosecuting it with rare success, when he was stricken down by disease. One of the last records which he made in his diary a few days be- fore his death was the following: "In looking over my ministry of nearly seven years, I teel I ougiit to drop on mv knees and thank (iod that he ever called me to this glorious work. Some are always speaking of the trials of the ministrj'; but I can say, on reviewing Ttiine, that it lias been one bright day, with few clouds to dim the brightness. I love the work." He died in August, 18G9. See Warren [G. ¥.1, Memorial Sermon. (J. C. S.)
Sweet Cane. See Cane.
Sweet Singers, a small Scottish sect, called from their foinukr, .lohn (lib, the Giiinincs (q. v.). They forsook all worldly business, and professed to be entirely devoted to fasting and prayer in the open fields. The name " Sweet Singers" was given to them from their habit of "wailing a jjortion" of the more mournful psalms. They renounced and denounced the use of metrical psalms, the translation of the Bible, Longer and Shorter Catechisms, the Confession of Faith, the Covenant, names of months and days, the use of churches and church-yards; all kinds of tolls, custom, and trib- ute, all sports, and, indeed, everything and everybody but themselves. They linally undertook a pilgrimage to the Pentland Hills, where they remained some days, with a resolution to sit till they saw the smoke of the desolation of Edinburgh, which their leader had pre- dicted. They were committed to prison in lulinburgh in April, 1681, but were soon released. See Blunt, Diet, of Sects, s. v.; ^I'Crie, Scottish Church History, ii, 195.
SWEET SINGERS, the English Eanters (q. v.) of the 17th century, so called by some contemporary writ- ers.