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TESTIMONY OF GENERAL TUXEN. 63
For my part, I thank our Lord the God of Heaven, that
I have been acquainted with this great man and his
writings. I esteem this as the greatest blessing I ever
experienced in my life, and I hope I shall profit by them
in working out my salvation.
" My valuable guest took his leave of me, for the last
time, in a very affectionate manner, and I hope that I
shall, in the other life, testify to him my grateful heart.—
I am , with all respect, yours, &c.,
"CHRISTIAN TUXEN.
"Elsineur, May 4, 1790."
Letterfrom Emanuel Swedenborg to General Tuxen.
“ SIR,
" I received your letter of March 4th, by Lieut. Tuxen
your son, who did me the pleasure of paying me a visit.
My duty demanded a speedier answer ; but as I waited
for the conclusion of the affair at Gottenburg, in order to
communicate something of it to you, I have from time to
time postponed it. I have suffered this matter, and all
the invectives used against me at Gottenburg, to come to
an end and I have since sent the chancellor of justice,
and the senator Ekeblad, a copy of the annexed, by
means of which I effected a change in the business, of
which I shall inform you some other time. The affair
took its rise, at Gottenburg, from the dean ; the deputies
of that city having been instructed to complain of me
and Dr. Beyer to the diet, they pushed matters as far as
they could, but would never have effected anything, unless
the bishop, Filenius, who was then president of the
clerical order, had taken upon himself the management
of it, and in a crafty manner gained over some members
of the order, which the bishop first did from a secret
dislike, but afterwards out of inveteracy. For this reason
a committee was appointed by the order of clergy on the
Swedenborgian cause. Whilst they were deliberating on
this subject, I was not suffered to be present, but it was
all carried on clandestinely; yet the committee (which
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