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340 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
as possible, yet, on account of the many particulars that had
to be included in it, I am afraid I have been unpleasantly
prolix, without, however, having made my statement as complete
as I could wish. The lofty judgment of Your Royal Majesty
is able to discover in a few brief hints much more than a
man of the greatest genius is able to express. I, therefore,
ask your most gracious permission, that, in consequence of
all that has been stated above, I may use the briefest and
most direct language in making a humble declaration with
respect to that with which I have been personally charged.
"I have had a hand in the composition of the ’ New Sermon
Essays,’ a copy of which is presented herewith, while suffering
from much feebleness of body, and a chronic disease of the chest
with fever, but with the faculties of the mind unimpaired, and
the gift of writing undiminished, or rather increased. An
exception, however, must be made of the so-called ’ nyttorne’
(Evening-sermons), which in the first part, and also in the
second, as far as Easter-Sunday and the first Sunday after
Easter, were composed by Lector Gothenius : 197 for all the rest
I am responsible. All that is good and true therein is mostly
due to the reading of Assessor Swedenborg’s books, while the
Divine text in each particular case has been my guide, without
which I was not willing to undertake the consideration of
any doctrinal subject. All the defects that may be discovered
therein must be put down to the account of my great imperfection,
as well as to want of time, which prevented me devoting the
proper attention to the proof-reading. It has been my constant
endeavour to admit only such things as could not be objected
to by the powers of the land, and as would not disturb the
peace of the church, as may appear especially from the new
essay for the twenty-third Sunday after Trinity, pages 308
and 309. That these small essays have anywhere caused
disturbance has not been noticed, nor has any public criticism
of them appeared, although it is now three years since they
first began to be issued in sheets. In respect to the permission
to print them, a sufficiently minute account will be found in
the printed ’ Minutes of the Consistory,’ p. 79. From private
conversations only have I learned that this collection of
essays is objected to for not containing discussions on certain
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