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Doc. 245.] 319
ROYAL RESOLUTION.
all points agreeing with our pure evangelical doctrine, or how
far you have discovered in them anything deviating there
from ; in the latter case you will also report to us whether
the author of these essays is known to you, or can be discovered
by you. It is also your duty to make a more thorough ex
amination of the so-called dictata, and to inform us how all
these are connected ; also whether it cannot be traced out how
far the students, in what is found there to be erroneous and
objectionable, have received instruction from others. The
proceedings of all your examinations have to be submitted to
us. Besides, Lector Dr. Beyer22 will have to give an account
of himself individually in those matters that have been brought
up against him. Further, as we deem it indispensable that
a legal investigation be made in respect to the person who
caused Swedenborg’s letter of October 30, 1769, to be printed,
a gracious order in connection therewith has just been for
warded to the Court of Appeals at Jönköping. In respect to
the importance and delicate nature of this matter, it is
likewise our desire to enjoin you to have a watchful eye
upon all theological works announced for publication , so
that, in accordance with the laws in respect to the liberty
of the press, they be first examined by you, and, in case any
book appear without permission, or be found to militate against
our profession of faith, that the copies be at once confiscated,
and the author subjected to a fine ; further, that reviews or
translations of Swedenborg’s works, or of other similar writings,
which contain anything conflicting with our pure doctrine, are
not to be passed without your most careful examination ; espe
cially when not written in the Latin language, and when they
contain any refutation, in the substance of the review, by which
they may exert an injurious influence upon the more simple
minded people, who are not thoroughly grounded in learning.
Again, although we entertain a gracious confidence in our
faithful subjects the clergy, that they will not allow them
selves to be led astray by any erroneous doctrines, but rather
that with attention and zeal for our pure faith they will seek
to administer their precious office, and when called upon will
meet diligently and prudently the erroneous views that may
be brought up against it, we, nevertheless, desire to impress
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