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182 [Doc. 26 .
SJEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
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You are acquainted with the gentlemen and secretaries in
he Senate and the College. Let me know whether a resolution
has been passed in favour of the free importation of paper.
Also, whether the College of Chancery has handed in its opinion
about the printing of the Bible. It is a thing unheard of
to sell a beautiful Swedish Bible in royal octavo for five marks
in copper : and yet such a thing is a matter to dispute about!
O tempora !
DOCUMENT 26.
SIXTEENTH LETTER* OF BISHOP SWEDBERG
TO JOHAN ROSENADLER .
Well-born Councillor of Chancery,
Most honoured Brother,
With great joy I heard, on my arrival at
Mariestad, that you have been advanced to the office and
honour of a Councillor of Chancery. I desire to congratulate
you on this with all my heart ; and I wish you may live long
in the service, and for the honour of our country, and for our
happiness, who are your nearest relatives. I do not doubt
that you will more vigorously push to a gratifying end the
godly purpose of printing the Bible, which has as long re
mained unsettled in the College of Chancery. Both His
Excellency Count Swen and His Royal Majesty have pro
mised that this matter shall be brought to a favourable close.
Brother of my heart, help this most important object, and
God will help you again .
The enclosed sheet I have received by mail here at Mariestad,
As it was not accompanied by a letter, but only furnished
with a large seal of authority, I have concluded, that it is
from you. I wish very much that the printer would hurry a
.
little more with the book than he has done heretefore.
* Bergius’ Collection, Vol. IV. p. 37.
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