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4. LINNE. BALTER. NOHRBORG. 329
subject.
18
With Baiter it is natural to associate the name
of Andreas Rhyzelius, Bishop of Linkoping from 1743 to
1761, whose lives of Swedish bishops and description of
Swedish monasteries are of no slight value to the
historian.19
Jakob Serenius (1700 1776), Bishop of
Strengnas from 1763 to his death, has been already inci
dentally named as having been pastor of the Swedish
Church in London, and as having done much to introduce
confirmation into Sweden, after the English and Danish
manner. His residence in England also led to his writing
two important philological works, an English, Swedish
and Latin dictionary, and a dissertation on the early rela
tions between the Sveogoths and the Angles. He was
zealous for order and education in his diocese, and had
something, I suppose, of the masterful spirit of Rud-
beckius. The court preacher, Anders Nohrborg (1725
1767) is best known as the author of that most popular
book of postils or sermons, entitled The Way of Salvation
for fallen Man, which for many Swedes has come next to
the Bible and the hymn-book as a help to devotion.20
It
is remarkable as being the work of a strict Churchman,
and one opposed to all sectarianism. In this way it did
much to maintain the position of the National Church.
An even more popular preacher in his own life time was
Anders Elfving (17451772), "the man with the spirit
and power of Elias," on whom Murbeck, the Pietist, had
18
Historiska Anmdrkningar om Kyrko-ceremonierna sd ivdl
iM den offenteliga Gudstjensten, som andra tillfallen, hos de
forsta Christna, och i S-wea Rike ; i synnerhet efter Reforma-
tionen, etc. It was published first in 1762. I have used the
third edition "with
appendix and alterations in accordance with
the Hand-book of 1809," by Professor A. E. Knos, Orebro,
1838.
19
Episcoposcopia Suiogothica, two parts, Linkoping, 1752,
Monasteriologia Suiogothica eller
Kloster-beskrifvning, 1740.
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20
Den fallna menniskans salighets ordning, published after
his death by his brother Daniel, in
1771. The i7th edition
appeared in
1877.
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