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Doc. 10.] 101
BISHOP JESPER SWEDBERG .
to occupy the parsonage and enjoy the emoluments of the
office). In 1681 he defended the first disputation which he had
written himself, Professor A. Norcopensis in the chair ; next
year he passed his examination as candidate, defended his
disputation for obtaining a degree, and received the degree
of Magister. On Feb. 12, 1685, he was ordained by Bishop
Carlsson of Westerås. The same year he became pastor to
the regiment of the guards; at all events he then entered
upon its duties. On this subject he says, “ About the same
time I received from the Honourable Colonel Ramsvärd, without
any application on my part, the appointment of pastor of his
Majesty’s regiment of the guards, after Magister Isogæus."
In the years 1684-85, he undertook a journey abroad, after
having obtained the royal permission. About the middle of
the summer of 1684, he went to England. The severe church
life, and especially the sanctity with which the Sundays are
kept
, made a deep impression upon him. In London and
Oxford he spent three months, and enjoyed there the learned
intercourse of Bishop Fells and the great philologist Bernhardi.
In discussing the subject of church union, for which Bishop
Fells laboured, he expressed himself to Bernhardi in the following
language: “ For this purpose the Lord’s hand, an impulse from the
Highest, prayer, and a peace-loving disposition are required.”
In France he learned to respect the excellent care which the
Roman Catholic Church takes of the poor and needy, in noticing
“how the wealthier members of the community went out in
the evening into the streets and lanes, to look after the
poor, the sick, and those without shelter ; how distinguished
ladies and countesses, dressed in common garments, sought
the sick and the helpless, and exhibited towards them as
much mercy as they would towards their own blood relations."
Afterwards he went through Lorraine and Alsace to Strasburg.
Here he enjoyed lodging, board, and hospitality in the house
of Bebel, the professor of theology and church history, and
formed also an invaluable intimacy with the learned and pious
theologian, S. Schmidius.* These two men he revered in his
* Sebastian Schmidius, whose translation of the Bible, published at
Strasburg in 1696, was used by Swedberg’s son Emanuel Swedenborg in the
preparation of his theological writings.
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