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352 [ Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
est me to be a Christian.’ We do not know what Adolphus
Frederic said after hearing Rosén’s declaration. But from
the King’s remark to Swedenborg, which we shall quote here
after, it would seem that Rosén’s frank, as well as laconic
and pithy, Bible language did not displease that monarch."
While the Documents O, P and Q were pending before
the King and the Council of State, Swedenborg wrote the
following letter to Dr. Beyer:
R.
FIFTEENTH LETTER OF EMANUel swedenborg to dr. Beyer.22‡
"Reverend Doctor and Lector,
"Only two days ago I received your favour of the 21st of
last March, and on reading it through I was surprised at the
reports which are said to have reached Gottenburg from Stock
holm to the effect that you and Dr. Rosén are to be deposed,
deprived of office, and banished from the country, a report to
which certainly I can give no credence ; for it contradicts my
reason in the highest degree to believe that a person may be
deprived of office and banished from the country, on the mere
allegation of his being heretical, without the principal point of
accusation against him being investigated. In the printed
Minutes I cannot find that they have taken a single step in
regard to the question itself, but that they have simply busied
themselves in making attacks in abusive and unseemly language,
when yet the real point at issue is this, whether it is allowable
to approach immediately our Redeemer and Saviour Jesus
Christ, or whether we must go a circuitous way, namely, to
God the Father, that He may impute to us the merit and
righteousness of His Son, and send the Holy Spirit. But that
* The King’s official reply to the declarations of Drs. Beyer and Rosén
is contained in Document 245, T.
See Document 6, no, 37.
The Swedish original of this Document, from which the present
translation has been made, is preserved in the Library of the Academy of
Sciences in Stockholm. It was printed as Letter XIII in the "Samlingar
för Philantroper," and an English translation of it is contained in the
Supplement to the enlarged English edition ofthe "Swedenborg Documents,”
published in 1855, pp. 6 to 9.
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