Samuel Noble

[1] In his professional life, Noble became a skilled architectural engraver, and made a good income.

He was one of the founders (1810) of the Society for printing and publishing the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg; and assisted in establishing (1812) a quarterly journal The Intellectual Repository and New Jerusalem Magazine, of which until 1830 he was the chief editor and principal writer.

The congregation, which had been declining, was increased by Noble to a more solid prosperity, and purchased (about 1829) the chapel in Cross Street vacated by Edward Irving.

Hence arose the controversy between "resuscitationists" and "dissipationists"; John Clowes and Robert Hindmarsh rejected Noble's view, and his major antagonist was William Mason (1790–1863).

SAMUEL NOBLE, Minister Of the New Jerusalem Church, Cross Street, Hatton Garden, London, Author of " An Appeal to the Reflecting of all Denominations," " The Plenary Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures Asserted," And other works in elucidation and defence of The doctrines of the New Church, Signified, in the revelation, by the New Jerusalem, As explained in the writings of the Lord's Servant Emanuel Swedenborg.

THIS MONUMENT Is erected by his congregation and other friends, As a tribute of grateful affection For the spiritual benefits derived from his able And faithful ministry, and for his other labours In the cause of the true Christian Religion.

[2] Noble's major publications were:[1] He revised, with help of amanuenses, the translation of Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, giving it the title The Future Life (1851).