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Doc. 267.] 563
TESTIMONY OF FERELIUS.
there were any strangers with the Assessor, upon which his
lady attendant said, " No, this noise has continued during the
last few days." The Dean entered. The Assessor received
him with a glad and cheerful countenance, saying, " Be welcome,
reverend Sir! God has now delivered me from the evil spirits,
with whom I have had to struggle for several days. Now
the good spirits have come back again. " Dean Ferelius said,
"Mr. Assessor, I heard that you were sick, and as pastor of
the Swedish church in this place, I considered it my duty to
visit you." Whereupon he proposed to the Assessor to receive
the Holy Communion. The Assessor thanked him for the
offer three or four times and said, " I acknowledge that I have
not received it for several years ; but I did not need it ; for
I have been a member of the heavenly church. But now I
am willing to receive it, in order to show what a close union
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there is between the visible and the invisible church." Dean
Ferelius then asked him, "Mr. Assessor, is it to acquire a
name, or for some other reason that you have written your
various writings ? If so, retract them. You are celebrated
enough, and if you have spoken lies, and remain in them, you
cannot be saved. " The Assessor answered, "Mr. Pastor, as
true as you see me here, and as true as I live, I have not
written any thing from myself, but the truth from God; and
if you will pay attention to the truth, we shall some time in
eternity have important things to talk over together." The
Dean answered, " Do you, Mr. Assessor, acknowledge yourself
to be a sinner, then raise your hands, and read the confession
of sins. " "I am," said the Assessor, " most undoubtedly, a sinner ;
for what other reason should I have to carry about with me
this sinful body?" Whereupon he read the confession of sins,
and received the Holy Communion.
2. The last official act which the Dean performed in
England, was the Assessor’s burial. As a burial fee he
received the copy of the Hebrew Bible, in two volumes, quarto,
which constituted the Assessor’s travelling library, and which
he had most frequently made use of, and underscored every
where.
3. The Assessor was a most cheerful and genial man. Far
from desiring to force his discoveries on any one, he never
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