Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

opened on the 1st March by a speech from the
High Marshal, in which, in the name of the duke
and the council, he welcomed the clergy, and
congratulated them on having now at length
obtained what they had often so earnestly sought,
and King John had as often promised -- but only
promised -- " a free ecclesiastical synod." He
invited them freely to discuss the matters they had
been convoked to consider, but as for himself and
his colleagues, he added, they would abide by the
Augsburg Confession of 1530, and the
ecclesiastical constitution of 1529, framed for them
by Lawrence Patersen, the late Archbishop of
Upsala.
Professor Nicolas Olai was chosen president,
and the synod immediately proceeded to the allimportant
question of a Confession. The Augsburg
Confession was read over article by article. It was
the subject day after day of anxious deliberation; at
last it became evident that there existed among the
members of synod a wonderful harmony of view
on all the points embraced in the Augustan
Symbol, and that there was really no need to frame
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