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282 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
Your Excellency’s pleasure in my writings gladdens my
heart, and I thank you for it with all due respect, remaining,
Your Excellency’s most humble servant,
EM. SWEDENBORG.
Stockholm, November 17, 1769.
DOCUMENT 245.
SWEDENBORG’S CONTROVERSY WITH THE
CONSISTORY OF GOTTENBURG.
INTRODUCTION.
A carefully prepared digest of the acts of this important
controversy occupies Part I of a work which appeared in 1847,
in the Swedish language, under this title: "The New Church
and its influence upon the study of theology in Sweden A
contribution to the Swedish Church history of later years"
(
Nya Kyrkan och dess inflytande på Theologiens Studium i
Sverige). Upon this work, which we have reason to think
was written by our well-known friend Dr. Kahl of Lund, we
have mainly drawn for the materials used in the preparation
of this Introduction , and of some of those historical parts
which serve as connecting links between the particular docu
ments composing this larger document.
The documents themselves which illustrate this episode in
Swedenborg’s life, are derived (1 ) from the "Nya Kyrkan, " &c.;
(2) from the " Minutes respecting Swedenborgianism and the
so-called Sermon-Essays" (Handlingar rörande Svedenborgia
nismen och de så kallade Prediko- Försök), under which title
was published , in a quarto volume of upwards of 200 pages,
the official record of the Proceedings of the Consistory of
Gottenburg from March 22, 1769, to February 7, 1770 ; and (3)
from the published and unpublished letters of Emanuel Sweden
borg written during that period.
With respect to the origin of this controversy, we read in
the " Nya Kyrkan," &c. (p. 10) as follows : "For twenty years
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