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1276 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 302.
JOHAN TYBECK.
In all countries in which the writings of Swedenborg have been
made known, the receivers of his doctrines have been divided into
two classes : first, those who by means of these doctrines sought to
reform the Old Church, and who for this purpose considered it their
duty to remain within the fold of the Old Church; and secondly,
those who believe that the new cannot be mixed with the old,
nor instilled into the old, and who maintain that a new doctrine
implies a New Church not only in internals, but also in externals.
These two classes of New Churchmen have also been represented
in Sweden, and among these Johan Tybeck proclaimed himself openly
and unequivocally a member of the second class. For a notice of
his life we are indebted to the author of the Nya Kyrkan och dess
inflytande, who in respect to the necessity of a separation of the new
from the old did not share Tybeck’s views, but who otherwise sym
pathized with him, and gave an impartial and interesting view of
his life and character:
"John Tybeck was born on January 26, 1751 , in Nerike. Like
the well-known Jung-Stilling (Note 215), he commenced his career
as a mechanic. A portion of his youthful years he spent in acquir
ing the trade of a saddler, and he was about be ming a journeyman
when he exchanged the workshop for the grammar and dictionary.
He, consequently, commenced his studies in late years, but this
progress was so much quicker; for according to the Biografiskt
Lexicon he was the cleverest among a hundred and forty pupils at
the gymnasium. ’ When he was twenty-six years of age he entered
the University of Upsal, and two years afterwards he was ordained
into the ministry. He first became chaplain on the estate of Baron
J. D. Duvall, the general adjutant, and afterwards on that of the
Baroness B. G. Sparre, and finally from 1781 to 1797 he was
chaplain to Baron J. Liljencrantz, the governor, in Hesselbyholm
in Södermanland. From 1801 to 1803 he also acted as assistant
minister in Helgarö.” This is the extent of his active life in the
ministry; for after 1803 he lived on a small estate called Ön, which
was granted to him for life by Baron Liljencrantz, and which was
situated on the island of Fogdön in Lake Mälar, in the neighbour
hood of Hesselbyholm.
"A short time after he had entered upon his ministerial duties,"
says the author of Nya Kyrkan, &c., "a girl called Sara Stina
Schultz was entrusted to his pastoral care and to that of a colleague
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