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110 [Doc. 10.
SWEDENBORG’S
WEDE ANCESTRY.
case to bring before the Chapter, should appear in person ; and
Secondly, because the pretended proofs of the governor-in
chief were accepted by the chapter without being deposed
upon oath, which is never omitted even in the smallest matter
of justice. Besides, all priests have by a solemn oath pledged
themselves to keep the law of the Church in all particulars,
which yet they forego, e. g. in the order that baptisms
should take place publicly in Church, which the authorities
pass over in silence. " He said further, “ Although faith ,
and law, and sacred pledges may be forgotten by others, and
set aside, yet we priests ought to keep them inviolate. We
priests, I say it sobbing, who with our hands upon the Lord’s
glorious Bible, with bent knees, at the Lord’s altar, and in the
presence of the holy angels, have by a solemn oath pledged
ourselves to keep the law of the Church. With that hand, I
say it sobbing, which we should lift up to God in prayer,
with that hand with which we should bless God’s people, the
little children in baptism . It were better, indeed, never to
take an oath at all, than to become such scandalous perjurers.
For we priests must live in accordance with our oath, and not
according to the manners and customs of the people, according
to law, and not according to our likes and dislikes.” Gyllen
stjerna’s answer came in on Nov. 5, but his not appearing
personally he excused by alleging indisposition. In his answer
he asks for some further information. The same he did again,
in a paper of the 26th of the same month. He could not
help considering his honour and reputation attacked by Swed
berg, when he spoke of someone taking pay, and not doing
his duty, and when he added injury to his unbecoming be
haviour, in publicly attacking a person, without first,according
to the law of the Church , going, and speaking to him of his
faults in private. For this reason also Gyllenstjerna insisted,
that Swedberg on account of this sermon, " should recant in
public, and retract his words in the same place in which he
had spoken them ; and as to the rest, that he should receive
an appropriate reproof and well-deserved correction from the
Consistory.” Swedberg retorted, 1. That he had never meant
His Excellency personally; 2. and with regard to the other
points, it was not the duty of priests, to report cases of dis
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