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DOCUMENT 120.
MAGISTER UNGE TO SWEDENBORG .
To Assessor E. SWEDENBORG .
Most honoured and dear brother,
Your last letter seems to put it beyond a
doubt that you will come down to the funeral.f The old
atheist, Chamberlain Eric Sparre,& who lived in Ryholm ,
has also recently deceased . He was a regular Lucian,
and, if possible, worse than Lucian. Besides many other dis
ciples of atheism, he had a fellow religionist even at Upsal
our age seems almost in decay. It is said that on his death
bed he discovered that the light he had followed in his
principles was a seductive, hidden fire, and in itself the
thick darkness of hell. He is said to have repented very sin
cerely, and to have condemned it, and done penance for it,
and also to have prepared himself in a Christian fashion for
a blessed end. I trust that this may have been so. With
many kind remembrances from my wife, I remain, most
honoured and dear brother,
Your most obedient servant,
J. UNGE.6
Lidköping, January 17, 1736..
* “ Bergius’ Collection ," in Stockholm . Vol. XIV, p. 297.
† Among the letters, etc. from Their Royal Majesties, of the yoars 1736,
1737, p. 99, in the College of Mines in Stockholm , there is a document in
which the King grants leave of absence to Assessors Swedenborg and
Benzelstierna for three or four weeks, to go to Westergöthland to attend
the funeral of Bishop Swedberg. That document is dated Jan. 13, 1736.
From the minutes of the College it appears that the funeral ofthe Bishop
was to take place on the 29th of January; yet the Bishop died as early as
the 26th of July, 1735. See the letter in which the widow announces his
decease to Ericus Benzelius, which is dated Brunsbo, July 27, 1735, and
which isamong BishopBenzelius’ lettersat Linköping, Vol.XIV,No.114.
Baron Eric Sparre, chamberlain of the Dowager - Queen Hedwig
Eleonora ; he was born in 1660, and died in 1736. See “ Anrep ," Vol. IV,
p. 40.
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