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342 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENRURG.
for which any action should be taken against me, in agreement
with Your Royal Majesty’s gracious orders for the government
of the schools (Scholae-ordning), Chapter 10, § 2, viz. that a
reprimand should be administered to me for teaching contrary
to God’s written Word ; which reprimand, when duly carried
out, would have to be pronounced by the Bishop and the
Consistory; and in case of non-compliance on my part, the
matter would have to be reported, in all humility, to Your
Majesty. In order to assure the public generally of the
harmlessness of the principles taught in my lectures, I
considered myself bound to publish the short Latin oration,
which herewith follows, and which was pronounced in the
presence of most of the members of the Consistory, and after
wards communicated to the Bishop of the diocese, and generally
distributed, and against which no points of accusation were
raised. How I have been treated by the Consistory, on
account of these so-called dictata, may be seen from the
printed ’ Minutes of the Consistory,’ p. 40, and in many other
places afterwards.
"Next in order I have to defend myself, in all humility,
on account of having given leave to print an extract from one
of Swedenborg’s letters, dated October 30, 1769, a point
which the Chancellor of Justice has noticed. As I was at
the time Dean of the Consistory, I considered myself not only
justified, but even in duty bound to grant this permission.
Our practice has been to acknowledge the office of the dean
in printing matters in this wise, that small papers were not
submitted to the whole Consistory, but were simply furnished
with the dean’s signature; an instance of which is furnished
by the ’Gottenburg Magazine ’ (Götheborgska Magasinet) of
1766 and 1767, and the ’ Clerical News ’ (Prest Tidningarne)
of 1768, which even contained theological matters ; this took
place after Your Royal Majesty’s most gracious order with
respect to the freedom of printing was published. When the
question of the printing of that letter came up before the
Consistory, some of its members endeavoured to establish the
position, that the printing of this letter ought legally to have
been submitted to the action of the whole Consistory. Yet
if this matter be fully examined, during the whole time the
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