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366 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
unity and purity of doctrine. But as His Royal Majesty has
not discovered in them, what His Royal Majesty was justified
in expecting from them, and what both the laws of God and
of man demand, His Royal Majesty would have full cause
for having them treated in accordance with the statutes of
religion ; yet out of mercy, and out of regard for their own
welfare, and wishing to try whether they, like such as have
gone astray, may be brought back again to the right way.
His Royal Majesty is willing to waive severer measures at this
time ; and for this reason His Royal Majesty graciously orders
Bishop Lamberg to summon them without delay before the
Consistory, and to inform them, how His Royal Majesty has
looked upon their behaviour, and afterwards to seek to
convince them of their errors.
(b) " Further, it shall be the duty of Bishop Lamberg to
inform them that their defence of Swedenborg’s doctrine on
the plea of its agreement with the Word of God can avail
nothing; since it cannot be unknown to them that there is
scarcely one of the numerous sects that have rebelled in the
Christian church, from the first century after Christ to the
present time, that did not base itself on the Sacred Scripture,
yet according to a different interpretation of the same ; nor
that the statutes of religion, the constitution and the acts
that have been sanctioned by the King, insist upon the unity
and purity of that doctrine which is based on the Sacred
Scripture, and expressed in the three symbols or creeds, and
likewise in the unaltered Augsburg Confession, which was
adopted by the Council of Upsal in 1593, and which is explained
in the ’Formula Concordiæ ; ’ and that the above statutes and
bodies of law are totally opposed to any one explaining the
Scripture, and especially the chief grounds of our faith, accord
ing to his own good pleasure and notions, and to his striving
to make proselytes. Again, he is to inform them that there
is no ambiguity either in the passages extracted from Sweden
borg’s writings by members of the Consistory, nor in what
Swedenborg says in the treatise on the ’ Intercourse between
the Soul and the Body,’ which appeared last year, and where
he clearly insists, in several places, on his own revelations.
And, finally, that no conclusion in favour of the Sweden
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