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314 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
movements and sports of the delirious fantasy of the Assessor
’from things heard and seen,’ except that soon after his arrival
a petition was handed in to the House of the Clergy, requesting
the release of the confiscated books. How very much, there
fore, was I surprised when in the middle of October I learn
ed for the first time what had happened in Gottenburg,
through reading by mere chance eight sheets of the printed
Minutes of the venerable Consistory, by which also the mem
bers of the House of the Clergy were amazed, when they saw
how far the hallucinations of a human mind, disturbed by ima
ginary visions and fables, could go in their madness, when
complete licence is given them to spread themselves, so that
they impose even upon discreet people, who are unwilling
to have their darkness enlightened by the good and pure
revealed Word of a saving God, and who do not allow
God’s Spirit, which is always connected with the Word, to
exert the vivifying force of the Word in their hearts. The
House of the Clergy could not help being amazed also at the
rashness of the printer Smitt , in daring to print the above
mentioned rude letter of the Assessor, dated October 30, which
first came to my own knowledge and to that of the House in
November.
"You, as well as Dean Ekebom179 and the worthy Deans
Aurelius and Kollinius, who, in these troubled times of our
Zion, have displayed so much cautious attention and zeal in
what concerns God’s honour, will please rest assured, that
throughout this confused affair all the Christian , delicate,
cautious, and severe measures will be taken which the exigen
cies of the case require, so as to save from eternal damnation
those souls which Jesus, the only begotten Son of God from
eternity, has redeemed by His blood and His death.
"It is a matter of the deepest regret that Assessor Sweden
borg, who has at all times been universally honoured, and who
besides has been distinguished for his learning in the sciences
of mining and physics , should now, at his advanced age,
have been for several years in a state of second childhood, and
so much possessed by a perverted imagination, as to be no
longer able to bear contradiction or receive enlightenment.
It is very grievous indeed, and to be lamented with tears,
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