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DOCUMENT 18.
EIGHTH LETTER * OF BISHOP SWEDBERG TO
JOHAN ROSENADLER .
Well-Born Secretary.
Most honoured brother,
For your honoured letter, and the great trouble
you are taking for me, I thank you very much. If, like many
others, I did not write or work until an opportunity offered, I
should not be so very troublesome to you. Yet I am so much
interested in my subject that I cannot wait, and time and
every hour would seem to me twice as long, unless I did
so at once. I hope that this impulse comes from God.
The person who is monetarily interested with me in the
printing of the Bible, is beginning to get tired. But I hope
I may succeed in so strengthening him , that he may not be
gained over by those by whom I am opposed.
Here are several things which I noticed in the letter from
the College of Chancery: first, that Werner is willing to print
the Bible in ordinary 8vo, in very small type; while we intend
to print it in royal 8vo, in larger type; secondly, that he
charges six marks in silver for his, while we would charge only
five marks; thirdly, he desires to be paid in advance for the
copies intended for America. We give our copies away,
without exacting payment in advance. If the College of
Chancery takes this into favourable and just consideration,
Werner will perhaps abate his terms. I would answer
Werner as Moses answered the servants, " Enviest thou
for my sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were
prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them ;’
(Numbers xi, 29). Had I the spirit of the prophet Daniel, I should
long ago, by prayer and calling upon God, have brought down
Bergius’ Collection , Vol. IV, pp. 23, 24.
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