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Doc. 10.] 149
BISHOP JESPER SWEDBERG . ·
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we came
Or it might have arisen from the following occurrence, which
is true. There was here in Skara, in the parish of Henda,
a woman who had done a great deal of evil, and who was
to expiate her wicked deeds on the gallows. She would not
confess any of her wicked acts, and refused to be led to death .
At last, after a long and weary work which the clergy had
with her, she was sent to me to Brunsbo with a guard. I
took her withme into my study, and talked with her about God’s
Word in the best and most stirring way I could, and I suc
ceeded at last, so that she confessed more and more, and
repented heartily. By virtue of my office I assured her of
forgiveness, &c. The following day she went cheerfully to
meet death. To God alone be the glory !"
" Sometime afterwards one who was possessed was led
about the country. When, one day in summer,
out of Asaka church, I saw a great multitude of people
standing all round the church- yard, but I did not ask why
it was. But after we had returned home, I inquired of my
servant what it had all been about; when he answered, that
it was one possessed, who was led by ten men, and that
when he saw me, he said : “You grey-headed old man with
short hair, you have served me a trick ; you have taken a roast
from me, for which I will pay you back. The possessed said
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further, that he had been among those who had followed the
woman that was a sinner, when she was led to Brunsbo, but
that he could not get any further than the door, where he
had to remain (so spoke the unclean spirit, and it was in
winter when this bad happened) ; and ’when she came out again,
I had no longer any power over her, but I will make you
pay for it. The payment was probably this, that he received
permission from God, as he did with Job, to destroy by a
vehement fire, in the month of February in 1712, the mansion
at Brunsbo with all my property. The fire began about mid
night in the same room where the sinning woman was con
verted. But thereby he did not gain much . "God has since
restored me everything double, as he did to Job of yore, and
has given me a much more comfortable house and dwelling."
"As I am showing by these things, how wonderfully God’s
grace has manifested itself through me, I must also relate
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