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ANECDOTES COLLECTED BY MR. ROBSAHM. 83
them, by their own eyes and ears, of the truth of those
deeds and things I publicly have made known. I have
no ability to capacitate them to converse with angels and
spirits, neither to work miracles to dispose, or force their
understandings to comprehend what I say. When my
writings are read with attention and cool reflection, ( in
which many things are to be met with as hitherto un
known,) it is easy enough to conclude, that I could not
come to such knowledge, but by a real vision, and by
conversing with those who are in the spiritual world. As
a farther proof, I beseech* their excellencies to peruse
what is contained in my treatise on Conjugial Love,
page 314 to 316. This book is in the hands of Count
de Ekeblad, and Count de Bjelke. If any doubt shall
still remain, I am ready to testify with the most solemn
oath that can be offered in this matter, that I have said
nothing but essential and real truth, without any mixture
of deception. This knowledge is given to me from our
Saviour, not for any particular merit of mine, but for the
great concern of all Christians’ salvation and happiness ;
and as such, how can any venture to assert it as false ?
That these things may appear such as many have had
no conception of, and of consequence, that they cannot
easily credit it, has nothing remarkable in it, for scarce
any thing is known respecting them.
" If it is true, that the chancellor has written to the
consistory at Gottenburg, in the terms which I have
related from the public rumour, it will give occasion to
conclude, that my writings contain errors, and that what
I have declared to be revealed to me are falsities, which
can in nowise be proved, unless construed into a sense I
never intended. In such a case, according to the laws on
that head, I might be arrested and shut up in prison, and
all this without being heard in my own defence. This is
the for my having recourse to your majesty for
protection ; for since the establishment of Christianity
and liberty in our country, it is a thing altogether un
* At that time the king only presided in the senate, to which
body at large he therefore addressed this letter.
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