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Doc. 245.] 343
DR. BEYER’S DEFENCE.
present members of the Consistory have been in office only
the following writings have been submitted to the action of
the full board: Dr. Ekebom’s discourse, delivered at Ljunby
during the visitation of the late Bishop Wallin; the Swedish
translation of Newton’s remarks on the prophecies of Daniel
and the Revelation of John, and the disputation delivered be
fore the meeting of clergymen by the late Lector Arwidson.
All the other books which have been printed, and of which
there is a great number, e. g. the translation of Tillotson’s
Sermons, in four volumes, &c., have not been formally sub
mitted to the whole board, but the dean only has usually
taken them in charge. My reasons, therefore, for not seeing
any objection to granting leave for the printing of the letter,
are these: that it was simply a letter, and not a theological
treatise, in which case it would certainly have been brought
under the notice of the whole board ; that it did not seem to
contain any of those matters which are forbidden in § 1 of
the Royal Order mentioned above ; but on the contrary, such
as seem to be admissible according to § 5, and, as § 13
expressly declares , must not be rejected and excluded from
printing on the plea of containing vituperation, slander, or
criticism. For with respect to the theological matter which,
according to the printed ’ Minutes of the Consistory,’ is said
to be discussed in the letter, it may be mentioned by way of
defence that there are great philologists and theologians in
the Lutheran church at the present day, for instance Michaëlis,
the aulic councillor in Göttingen, who have clearly proved
that the meaning of Paul in his epistle to the Romans and
Galatians, on account of their having been first addressed
to the Jews, cannot justly be interpreted as having reference
to the moral law, but must mean the law in that sense in which
it was looked upon by the Jews themselves (J. D. Michaëlis,
Introduction to the Divine Writings of the New Testament,
edition of 1766, pp. 1424, 1430) ; from which it seems to follow
that the question of justification and imputation, as indicated
in these passages (Rom. iii, 28, and Gal. ii, 16) , may be classed
among those points on which teachers are not agreed among
themselves, and which according to the Common Law (Miss
gerningar, B., Chap. i, § 4) cannot be visited with punishment.
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