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1278 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
the charge of heterodoxy. Eighty questions were put down by the
consistory, which he had to answer, "During the wearisome cross
examination before the Consistory," says the author of Nya Kyrkan, &c.,
"Tybeck reminded one of Socrates before the Areopagus. He neither
treated with his judges, nor did he make any compromise with their
religious views. The contest which he had provoked, he stood ready
to face openly and fearlessly, even after the gauntlet had been taken
up by the bishop of the diocese." We shall extract a few specimens
from the printed cross-examination:
"When Bishop Tingstadius among other things asked Tybeck
whether he was really convinced that the Evangelical Lutheran
doctrine was without foundation,’ he answered, ’Most assuredly am
I convinced of this. And I say so with the firm and full conviction
that as a minister it is my duty to preach, believe, and confess only
what the Word of God teaches.’ When he was asked again whether
’he rejected the symbolical writings, ’ he answered, ’Most undoubtedly
do I reject them. For it is the first principle of the Lutheran
doctrine that we must acknowledge God’s Word as the only standard
of truth on all matters of doctrine ; wherefore God’s Word alone
must be accepted.’"
The result was that on April 15, 1818, the Consistory condemned
Tybeck as heterodox, and suspended him from the priestly office.
This sentence was confirmed by the King, and on August 31 ofthe
same year he was stripped of the insignia of his office.
This procedure was condemned by the press as hierarchical and
unprotestant. And not knowing how to defend themselves in public
against this charge, the Consistory ransacked their Minutes for 1782,
and printed the report which Tybeck had then made of the case
of Sara Stina Schultz, thinking that by this means they would cast
odium upon him in the eyes of the public. Tybeck in a reply
entitled: ’Interesting reading for those who believe in a life after
this,’ exposed the whole proceeding of the Consistory, and, certainly
in the eyes of the public, not he but the members of the Consistory
were considered as the condemned party. The author of Nya
Kyrkan, &c., continues:
"If Tybeck’s adversaries supposed that by depriving him of the
priestly office, they obstructed his literary activity, they were very
much mistaken. The words which Cornelius Nepos applied to
Themistocles when he was deprived of his paternal inheritance: hæc
contumelia eum non fregit, sed erexit (this degradation did not crush,
but aroused him)—have their full application to Tybeck. He now
fairly poured out writings in which he explained the doctrines of
the New Church, and at the same time kept up an unceasing attack
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