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354 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
My cares and all my woe
On Him alone I’ll throw,
Who is my strength and guard.
By day and night I rest
Safely on Jesus’ breast,
In whom alone I trust’ (Verses 1, 3, 8).
"Besides all this, two of my letters, which have been inserted
and printed in the Gottenburg Minutes, * contain numerous
proofs, adduced from the whole of the ’Formula Concordiæ,’
that our Saviour, even as to His Humanity, is God, which
Luther and the ’Formula Concordiæ’ corroborate with all their
power, and which is also in agreement with the entire Word
of God. In proof of this I refer you only to Col. ii, 9;
1 John v, 20, 21. More to the same purport has been adduced
from one of my works, an extract from which may be found
in the printed Minutes’ of the Gottenburg Consistory (Docu
ment 245, C, p. 291 et seq.). This doctrine they there call
Swedenborgianism; but for my part I call it Genuine Christi
anity.
"This is the question now at issue, which the members of
the Consistory have, on their part, not touched upon at all,
but respecting which they have simply burst forth into abusive
language, which affects not simply my person and honour,
but our Redeemer and His holiness. How they will answer
for this after death, I will not here consider.
"As to the Son of God from eternity, which is likewise
a controverted point, I have proved, that in the Apostles’
Creed, which is received throughout the whole of Christendom,
and which contains the doctrine of the apostles themselves,
no other Son of God is mentioned than the Son of God born
in time, who is our Redeemer Himself, to whom every man
can address himself, and to whom, by virtue of what is stated
in the ’Augsburg Confession’ and the ’Formula Concordiæ,’
he must address himself, that he may obtain salvation. And
if our freedom be interfered with in this respect, I would rather
live in Tartary than among Christians. If any other be willing
* Document 245, F and G.
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