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312 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
J.
ASSESSOR AURELL191 TO BISHOP FILENIUS.”
..."I entreat you to take the most energetic
measures to stifle, punish, and utterly eradicate the Sweden
borgian innovation and downright heresies, by which we are
encompassed. Convinced, by the decided stand you have
taken, that you have, as the foremost defender of our religion,
both the power and the means in your hands of preserving
God’s honour, and having His power and will declared among
men in a genuine and uncontaminated form , all those whose
minds are still free from nonsense, and who are unaffected
and undisturbed in their senses, place, like myself, their hope
and consolation in you , and trust that you will take proper
measures, so that the boar which devastates and the wild beast
which desolates our country may be driven out with a mighty
hand , and that that which God’s hand has planted and con
firmed may be established among us."
The author of "Nya Kyrkan," &c., remarks here : "By such
language and by such means Aurell191 sought to get the better
of his adversaries. During the most illustrious times of Vati
canism, Rome’s ’ defender’ had a Torquemada or some other
Great Inquisitor to express such sentiments in the most
beautiful language, and to execute his will. ’God’s honour,
His power and will’ were then synonymous with the only saving
Roman Catholic church, and all those who sought to reform
its abuses and purify its doctrines were driven out like wild
beasts’ or burned at the stake. But such has never been the
mode of proceeding in protestant Sweden , at least not in
the eighteenth century. Ecclesiastical tradition among us had
frequently to give way to Biblical truth, and an arbitrary will
to argument. Nevertheless, Aurell’s letter was received ap
provingly by the Speaker of the House of the Clergy, whose
reply, which is dated December 28, is as follows :"
See "Handlingar," &c., p. 162.
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