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84 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
heard of, that any person has been proceeded against in
the manner they have against me.
" On this important affair, which concerns not only
my writings, but also my person and reputation, I
humbly request your majesty, that the reverend clergy
may deliver their opinion to yourself on that matter,
likewise the minutes of the council which examined the
writings, and the letter said to be forwarded by the chan
cellor of justice to the consistory at Gottenburg, to the
intent that I may be informed thereof, and, as well as
others of your majesty’s subjects, be enabled to make a
suitable reply, and heard in my own defence, possessing
the like right and privileges to require it.
"As to what relates to the Drs. Beyer and Rosen
of Gottenburg, I advised them to nothing, but to address
themselves to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as a
means of attaining to heavenly good and blessedness, for
he only has power in heaven and on earth, as declared in
Matthew xxviii. 18. As far as I have been able to learn,
they have said no more. This is conformable to the
Augsburg confession, the Formula Concordia, and the
whole of Sacred Writ. Yet these gentlemen have be
come no less objects of the most cruel persecutions than
myself
, arising from the enmity of the bishop and dean of
that town. I can say the same of my writings, which I
regard as another self; and that all that this dean has
laid to my charge is mere scandal and falsehood. I have
farther to entreat, that the two letters adjoining to this,
which I wrote to Dr. Beyer concerning this business,
may be read.* " EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
" Stockholm, May 10, 1770."
* In Swedenborg’s letter to Hartley, (see p. 25,) we have seen
it stated, by Swedenborg, that up to the year 1769 he had suffered
no persecution in his own country, but that he was on the most
friendly terms with the bishops and senators, many of whom he
had frequently informed respecting his extraordinary state, as
having his spiritual sight opened to communicate with the spiri
tual world. However extraordinary this might appear to them,
they did not, on that account, treat him with less respect; but as
Mr. Collin observes, " he was universally esteemed for his various
erudition, and for his probity, benevolence, and general virtue."
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