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108 [Doc. 10.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
Of the King’s favour, he received many new proofs. In the
year 1790, the King made him pastor in Vingåker without any
request on his part. Within a year afterwards he received a
new decree, appointing him dean of the cathedral of Westerås,
through the influence of Count Lars Wallenstedt, who was
governor there at the time. Between this governor, however,
and Bishop Carlsson already mentioned, there was a continual
feud, and this was the reason why the peaceable Swedberg
would not accept the office, although one of the King’s in
ducements for endeavouring to make him accept it was, that
he would have a good opportunity of making peace between
them . Meanwhile Swedberg mentioned, as one of the reasons
why he desired to remain in Vingåker, “the good order
which existed there in the church. ” In the same year the
pastorate of Hedemora was offered to him, after Moræus, but
he refused also this royal favour. Trials, however, went hand
in hand with these distinctions. And according to his own
testimony, he became thereby more zealous and more energetic
in the pulpit ; yea, the more he had to suffer from the hate and
ill-will of his enemies, the more he endeavoured to receive,
and to overflow with, God’s grace and love. We adduce the
following proof.
On the 17th Sunday after Trinity, 1690, he preached in
the Cathedral near the castle. Their Majesties were present.
The rubric prescribes a sermon on the holiness of the Sabbath.
Swedberg followed this command faithfully. To preach about
hallowing the Sabbath, without at the same time preaching
about not hallowing it, would be difficult for any one to do ;
but this was still more difficult on the present occasion.
That the holiness of the Sabbath was violated, he dared to
ascribe, in the first place, to those whose business it was
to exercise some care and watchfulness in enforcing the royal
orders, but who did not perform their duty. He could scarcely
have made his sermon more trenchant, if he had had to preach
it at this day, when the marching of soldiers and going to
theatres are the order, or rather the disorder, of the Sabbath
day. Who
Who will dare entirely to exculpate him from the
weakness of having in his zeal thought of a certain person,-a
sin which not unfrequently mars the purest zeal ? But enough,
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