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Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

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k<strong>in</strong>g for their support of the Missal, now came<br />

forward <strong>and</strong> confessed that they had been mistaken<br />

<strong>in</strong> their views of it, <strong>and</strong> craved forgiveness from<br />

God <strong>and</strong> the Assembly. So fell the notorious "Red<br />

Book," which, dur<strong>in</strong>g sixteen years, had caused<br />

strifes <strong>and</strong> divisions <strong>in</strong> the Church, had made not a<br />

few to depart from "the form of sound words," <strong>and</strong><br />

embittered the last years of the reign of the man<br />

from whom it proceeded.<br />

We deem it <strong>in</strong>cumbent to take <strong>in</strong>to<br />

consideration three of the resolutions adopted by<br />

this synod, because one shows the historic ground<br />

which the Reformed Church of <strong>Sweden</strong> took up,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the other two form the measure of the<br />

enlightenment <strong>and</strong> toleration which the Swedes had<br />

atta<strong>in</strong>ed to.<br />

The second general resolution ran thus: "We<br />

further declare the unity <strong>and</strong> agreement of the<br />

Swedish Church with the Christian Church of the<br />

primitive ages, through our adoption of the<br />

Apostolic, Nicene, <strong>and</strong> Athanasian Creeds; with<br />

the Reformed Evangelical Church, through our<br />

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