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706 [Doc. 283.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
bodily pleasures. All this is wrong. On the contrary , we
eat and drink there just as here, we sleep and wake up ; and
still more, people marry there and beget children [?] , at least
they enjoy connubial delights. Heaven also looks just like
our earth. Mountains and hills are there, streams and lakes,
forests and parks, cities and houses, gold and silver, &c.; at
least according to the author and his writings. Races are
distributed in a similar way as in Europe, and bear the same
name. The English are the first among God’s children, and
live in the centre of that new world, and in two towns as
large as London. The author has often been there, so that
he is quite certain of it. The Dutch are nearest to them;
they take good care of themselves, and are fond of money,
just as in the former world. Luther and Melancthon, on the
other hand, have lost their distinction, and they fare badly,
on account of having condemned good works, and declared
that they do not belong to faith. But Calvin leads a blessed
life, since he has recognized the truth of the epistle of James,
and brings forth the fruits of faith. The author has had the
honour of waiting upon King Louis XIV. He enjoys great
authority, and rules over his Frenchmen with great wisdom.
The author was once at court with him, when he among
other things related to his courtiers that he had been with
his successor Louis XV. in order to exhort him not to accept
the Bulla Unigenitus, as being injurious to his country. That
revelation occurred at Versailles, on December 13, 1759, at
eight o’clock in the evening. This is a very important
anecdote in French History ; we nevertheless think that this
is sufficient to give our readers a foretaste of this singular
work. The author’s remaining ideas on the subject of the
articles of our faith, are entirely passed over" (pp. 167
to 169).
B.
"SWENSKA MAGAZINET" *.
1. In the number for February, 1766 (p. 132), we read under
the head of "Short Swedish News about the learned for the
* "Swenska Magazinet" (The Swedish Magazine) was published by C.
C. Gjörwell during the years 1766 and 1767.
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