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Doc. 245. ] DR. EKEBOM’S DECLARATION. 345
years in the gymnasium, and who am the father of five
children unprovided for, hope that I shall receive from you
protection, and a livelihood in connection with the office I
have filled, and in which I have prospered during the course
of my life. Your Royal Majesty’s gracious order, with respect
to what I shall publicly teach, or not, shall always be observed
by me in humble obedience, and with the respect due from a
subject. Hoping in all humility that I shall be most graciously
permitted to explain further anything that may be found un
satisfactory in my humble declaration, or that may be advanced
by my adversaries in their attempts to refute or weaken the
same, I commend myself in my temporal affairs to Your Royal
Majesty’s good pleasure, and I remain with all due submission,
most mighty and most gracious King,
"Your Royal Majesty’s, &c.
"G. A. BEYER.
"Gr. L. L. ord. Pr. et Th. Doct."
Dr. Beyer’s declaration was submitted to the Consistory
on February 14, 1770. Dr. Ekebom’s declaration, which is as
follows, was received at the same time.
P..
DR. EKEBOM’S DECLARATION.*
A humble declaration:
“I. With respect to the Swedenborgian doctrines in general.
"Being called upon by His Royal Majesty’s
most gracious order, contained in His gracious letter to the
Consistory of this place, dated January 2, 1770, to express a
humble opinion in general upon the doctrines of the Well-born
* The German translation of this document, from which our version
has been made, is contained in a work printed by Prelate Etinger in 1771,
under the following title : SwedishDocuments respectingAssessor Swedenborg,
which will be decided by the Swedish Diet, June 13, 1771 (Schwedische
Urkunden von dem Assessor Swedenborg, welche auf dem Schwedischen
Reichstag den 13ten Juni, 1771, werden zur Entscheidung kommen), pp. 24
to 27. These documents had been previously published in Hamburg
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