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aSo VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
part.
29
His remonstrance with the young king (delivered
on 2oth June, 1617), urging him to break off from the sins
of his youth, does honour to his courage as a court chap
lain, and seems to have been well received by the king.
30
In the same year Rudbeckius was named by him one of
the first four doctors of theology ever promoted in the
kingdom.
In 1618 Rudbeckius was sent by the king to inquire into
the Schism which existed at Vesteras, where the bishop,
Bellinus, was 103 years old. This appears to have been a
kind of Judaism. The accounts of this strange delusion,
almost unparalleled in modern Church history, remind us
somewhat of the condition of things presupposed by St.
Paul s Epistle to the Colossians. The movement may
have arisen among the Jews at Archangel or in Poland. I
suppose that it spread from Finland through Upper
Sweden and Dalarne, and down to the South as far as
Smaland. It affected many priests, as well as peasants
and citizens, and it consisted not merely in observance of
the Sabbath, but in a multitude of dreams and visions in
which revelations were given by angels. Visions of angels
indeed had nothing necessarily heretical about them, and
readers of Bishop Svedberg s life may remember the
29
Johannes Rudbeckius, Bishop i Vesterds, af Theodor
Norlin, Upsala, 1860. The first half, down to his consecration
as bishop, 28th January, 1619, was published at Upsala, 1860.
The second half is in the Nordisk Tidskrift (1869), pp. 129 foil.,
but I have not seen it. The life in the Biographiskt Lexicon,
signed P., is useful. Cp. N. SoderbLom in Sertum philolo-
gicum Carolo F. Johansson oblatum, pp. 70 foil., Goteborg,
1910, on the scarce Privilegia Doctorum.
80
Mr. Fletcher (Gust. Ad. t p. 40) does not seem to have been
aware of this remonstrance, which is couched in general lan
guage, and recommends marriage. It was perhaps caused
by the liaison with a Dutch lady, Margaret Cabeliau, who was
mother of Count Gustaf Gustafsson of Vasaborg, born in 1616.
But that liaison does not seem to have stood alone. See
Norlin :
I.e., p. 50. Gustavus married in 1620 the daughter of
Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg. He was not allowed to
wed Ebba Brahe, his own choice.
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