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304 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
attempt to rebut Swedenborg’s arguments, but contented himself
with reproaching Dr. Beyer in the Consistory for acting as
Swedenborg’s messenger ; he gave him also to understand that
’perhaps, before he was aware, he himself might be brought
up on account of his Sermon-Essays. ’ "
The author of " Nya Kyrkan," &c., continues on the same
page, " The old odium theologicum, so well known in ecclesias
tical history, now took possession of the members of the
Consistory of Gottenburg; and those of one party it filled with
an extravagant zeal for orthodoxy, and those of the other with
as great an anxiety on account of their faith. To the latter
party belonged Beyer and Rosén,45 against whom the persecution
was directed, and most frequently they werejoined by Roempke.18:
The other party was headed by Dean Ekebom,179 who in most
cases was supported by the Bishop178 and the other members
of the Consistory. The proceedings of the case were seen
through the press by an Assessor, of the name of Aurell,191
under the title, ’Minutes respecting Swedenborgianism and the
so-called Sermon-Essays.’ These Minutes begin with March 22,
1769, and were closed on February 7, 1770, during the whole
of which time the Swedenborgian controversy continued without
interruption ; for as soon as one question was settled another
was quickly raised. When Dean Kollinius refused to give the
names of the ’leading men in the place who were thought to
favour Swedenborg’s theological principles,’ saying in a discreet
and noble manner that his object in sending in his memorial
had been to obtain enlightenment, and not to bring any one
into ill repute,’ Aurell191 directed his accusation against Beyer’s
Sermon-Essays, or his Collection of Sermons ; and when this
accusation also miscarried, since Roempke187 with the consent
of the Consistory had granted permission that it should be
printed, Aurell procured from some of the students of the
gymnasium the notes which they had taken of Beyer’s lectures,
and he requested permission to have them printed under the
name of ’dictata,’ so that the public generally might convince
themselves of their heterodoxy. Permission having been refused,
’since Beyer’s dictata had been penned by inexperienced students
who had neither sufficient intelligence fully to understand their
teacher’s meaning during the lesson, nor learning enough to
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