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DECLARATION OF DR. G. A. BEYER. 181
the power of Christ our Saviour, and placed himself on
His throne, making the people believe that he is Christ
upon earth. Every inferior pontifex or vicarius pontificis
maximi ought to have their consistory. The states of
the kingdom have their consistory in the ecclesiastical
division of the states, and the senators have their con
sistory, particularly at the universities ; but in the
determination of this matter they have acknowledged
the consistory of Gottenburg to be their consistory, and
have probably assented verbatim to the opinions of that
consistory, not being apprised that this was the most
important and the most necessary subject that has been
brought forward these 1700 years in any council or
senate, because it concerns the New Church, which is
predicted by the Lord in Daniel and in the Apocalypse,
and agrees with what our Lord says in Matt. xxiv. 22.
" I have not yet received the answer of the senate.
It has been once presented, but resolved that it should
rest till the return of those senators who were present on
the former occasion.—I remain, &c.,
" EMANUEL SWEDENBORG."
A DECLARATION
RESPECTING THE
DOCTRINES TAUGHT BY SWEDENBORG,
DELIVERED, IN OBEDIENCE TO THE ROYAL COMMAND,
JANUARY 2, 1770, TO HIS MAJESTY, ADOLPHUS FREDERIC, KING OF SWEDEN,
BY GABRIEL ANDREW BEYER, D.D.,
PROFESSOR OF GREEK LITERATURE, AND MEMBER OF THE CONSISTORY OF
GOTTENBURG.
As the reader will naturally desire to know something
of the circumstances which gave occasion to the following
"Declaration,"a few particulars are submitted for his satis
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