Nine Queries Concerning the Trinity

by Thomas Hartley and Emanuel Swedenborg

Nine Queries Concerning the Trinity
Title not held by The Wolf Law Library at the College of William & Mary.
Author	Thomas Hartley, Emanuel Swedenborg
Editor
Translator	Robert Hindmarsh
Published	London: R. Hindmarsh
Date	1786 or 1790
Edition
Language	English
Volumes	volume set
Pages
Desc.	Octavo

A translation, by Robert Hindmarsh, of 'Quaestiones novem de Trinitate, &c.', first issued in Latin in London, 1785.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

A 1792 letter from Robert Carter to George Wythe is reprinted in an article by John Whitehead in a Swedenborgian newsletter, the New-Church Messenger (Chicago) from 1917, "The Early History of the New Church in America, VIII." In the letter, dated October 11, 1792, Carter states he is sending Wythe four volumes of Swedenborg's writings: Nine Queries Concerning the Trinity (1786, or 1790), A Short Account of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg and His Theological Writings, by Robert Hindmarsh (1792), The Liturgy of the New Church Signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation (1792), and the first volume of True Christian Religion, published in Philadelphia by Francis Bailey, 1789. Carter also mentions Swedenborg's A Treatise Concerning Heaven and Hell (London: W. Chalklen, 1789) being sold by a local merchant in Richmond:

Under a particular Influence I present to you the following Books, viz., the first vol. of the True Christian Religion, 9 Questions concerning the Trinity proposed to E. S. by the Rev. Thos. Hartley, also, His Answers. A short account of the honorable E. S. and His Theological Writings, and the Liturgy of the New Jerusalem Church. The Liturgy is a Production arising from the Baron's Writings; for Societies are established in several of the most principal towns in Great Britain, styled members of the New Jerusalem Church, which was foretold was to be by the Lord, by the Prophet Daniel and the Evangelist John in the Revelation.

It is said that many copies of a Treatise on Heaven and Hell by E. S. were imported by a merchant of Richmond Town, which work communicates much comfort to Believers.

Wythe replied in October, 1792, thanking Carter for the books and stating, he wished "I had power to remunerate your beneficence by sending books to you which would do to you no less good than those handed to me by Mr. Dawson ought in your opinion to do to me." Swedenborg's works do not appear in Thomas Jefferson's inventory of books received from Wythe's estate after his death in 1806. Wythe may not have kept the four books gifted from Carter, giving them away or otherwise disposing of them. To date, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to locate a copy of Nine Queries Concerning the Trinity.

See also

• The Liturgy of the New Church Signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation
• "The Early History of the New Church in America, VIII"
• Short Account of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg and His Theological Writings
• True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church
• Wythe to Robert Carter, 17 October 1792
• Wythe's Library