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194 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
66
I do not, with all due submission, think it necessary
to touch upon those titles which have been unthinkingly
bestowed upon the author,-such as fanatic, visionary,
enthusiast, and several others, dismissing them, as applied
to so enlightened a servant of the Lord Jesus, as names
without any acknowledged meaning, only reminding those
who so apply them of the words of Peter, That they
speak evil ofthe things that they understand not.’
6
" In obedience, therefore, to your Majesty’s most
gracious command, that I should deliver a full and posi
tive "Declaration" respecting the writings of Swedenborg,
I do acknowledge it to be my duty to declare, in all
humble confidence, that as far as I have proceeded in the
study ofthem, and agreeably to the gift granted to me for
investigation and judgment, I have found in them
nothing but what closely coincides with the words of the
LORD HIMSELF, and that they shine with a light truly
divine."*
SWEDENBORG’S REPLY
ΤΟ
DR. EKEBOM’S DEPOSITION,
DELIVERED TO THE CONSISTORY AT GOTTENBURG, MARCH 22, 1769.
In connexion with Dr. Beyer’s "Declaration, &c." are
the two letters which Swedenborg wrote in reply to Dr.
Ekebom’s " Deposition," which he delivered to the Con
* Some parts of this " Declaration," which had only a local or
temporary reference to the Government and Church of Sweden,
not being interesting to the generality of persons in this country,
having been omitted, a few verbal alterations therefore became
necessary.
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