Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
642 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
nevertheless a dear member and brother with us, and such a life is
not accounted to him in the least as a matter of reproof; but if he
does not report his case, he is punished ," & c.
Language fails us, to describe our horror at seeing the doctrines
of the New Church falsified and slandered in such a manner. Where
does Swedenborg say that he only is a member of the New Church
who has been externally baptized into it? Where does he say that
those only are united in true marriage and in conjugial love who acknow
ledge the doctrines of the New Church ? Our very pen revolts, at
being compelled to write such un -Christian, and even blasphemous
language. Where does Swedenborg say that a wife who does not
acknowledge the doctrines of the New Church, though it be from
sheer ignorance, is a concubine, and not a wife ? Shame! shame upon
any one to say so who has had the privilege of studying the doctrines of
the New Church ! And where finally does Swedenborg say that if
the wife of a New Churchman does not accept the doctrines of the
New Church, her husband, if he cannot contain his lust of the
flesh , is entitled to have a concubinė, provided a minister of the
Church give him written leave? No wonder that a man who held
such doctrines and who, according to the testimony of Mr. Dawes,
(see Note 27), acted according to them , should have endeavoured to
whitewash and excuse his own sin, by declaring "that Swedenborg
himself had a mistress in his youth in Italy."
At the time A. Nordensköld was publishing his “ Plan of an
Organization of the New Church ,” he received from General Tuxen
(according to a statement which the latter made to C. F. Nordensköld
in a letter dated May 8, 1790 ) his account of Swedenborg, together
with certified copies of the letters he had received from Count
Höpken ; and while staying in Copenhagen and at Helsingör with
General Tuxen, he sent to his friend C. G. Wadström ,36 who had in
conjunction with Mr. Servanté, and several other friends of the New
Church, commenced the publication of the New Jerusalem Magazine,
his proposals for organizing the New Church, yet leaving out all
the objectionable portions about marriage and concubinage. These
proposals are contained in the March number of the New Jerusalem
Magazine; while the letters which he had received from General
Tuxen appeared in an appendix to that magazine.
Thwarted in his endeavours to make gold, and driven about by
his restless spirit, A. Nordensköld , soon after his arrival in England,
and in opposition to the advice of his friends, embarked for Sierra
Leone in Africa, whither he went in quest of gold, and where in
the interior of the country he died of exhaustion in 1792, after
having been robbed of everything by the natives.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
