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Doc. 245.] 311
LAMBERG TO THE CONSISTORY.
express in sufficiently strong language the great sorrow I feel
in this matter, and I urge upon you, as I have already done
in my last letter, to send me as speedily as possible a reply
to the questions I have propounded, so that those measures
may be adopted which I counsel for checking in future the
arbitrary spirit in our clergy."
The position which the Bishop of Gottenburg was determ
mined to take, in respectto the doctrine promulgated by Sweden
borg, appears still more clearly from the following extract
from a letter which he addressed to a friend in Gottenburg,
on November 16, and which was inserted in the Minutes of
the Consistory of December 5:
...."I intend in future to keep the strictest guard, lest
this cancer should spread. I have proposed to myself even to
read all the writings of this singular man, in order to expose
before the eyes of the diocesan clergy, by a pastoral letter
or some other means, this doctrinal system, which is sufficiently
tinged with Mohammedanism. I have long since regarded every
thing belonging thereto as so absurd, that no rational man, if
he make but the least claim to education, can be beguiled
by it. But when people get tired of God’s Word, which is
true and able to teach, then it seems that the Lord of the
Word suffers them to be carried away by the most arrant
nonsense" ...
The person who had to suffer most for the printing of
Swedenborg’s letter was Dr. Beyer,22 who, in his capacity of
Dean (Decan) of the Consistory, had given his official consent
to its being printed. Against him, therefore, were chiefly directed
the attacks of Dr. Ekebom¹79 and of his co-adjutor, Assessor
Aurell;191 and after the case of the Gottenburg Consistory
against Swedenborg and Dr. Beyer had been brought by Bishop
Lamberg178 before the House of the Clergy, those two men sought
by every means to stimulate the zeal and inflame the ani
mosity of the leading men of that House. Assessor Aurell
accordingly sent an inflammatory letter, dated December 9, to
Bishop Filenius, the Speaker of the House of the Clergy, in
which he used the following language:
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