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72 [Doc. 6.
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
commandments. He then took leave cheerfully with the bodily
vigour of a man of thirty*.
37. Some time before his last journey, he addressed a
petition to His Majesty King Adolphus Frederich, in which
he asked him to have letters of instruction addressed to the
Consistories of the kingdom, ordering them to examine his
writings, and give their opinion with regard to their contents;
but the Consistories did not make any report. When the
King met Swedenborg, he said to him : “The Consistories have
kept silence on the subject of my letters and of your writings;"
and laying his hand upon his shoulder he added: “We may
conclude then that they have not found anything reprehensible
in them, and that you have written in conformity with the
truth . "
* Cfr. Robsahm’s Memoirs SS 20, 21.
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