Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie
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exacted of the new monarch a pledge that he would<br />
not give admission to the Lutheran faith <strong>in</strong>to<br />
<strong>Denmark</strong>; but the Danish Bible was every day<br />
render<strong>in</strong>g the fulfillment of the pledge more<br />
difficult. In va<strong>in</strong> had the k<strong>in</strong>g promised "not to<br />
attack the dignity <strong>and</strong> privileges of the<br />
Ecclesiastical Estate,"[7] when the Scriptures were,<br />
hour by hour, silently but powerfully underm<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
them.<br />
A beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g was made by Georgius Johannis.<br />
He had drunk at the well of Wittemberg, <strong>and</strong><br />
return<strong>in</strong>g to his native town of Viborg, he began<br />
(1525) to spread the Reformed op<strong>in</strong>ions. When the<br />
Bishop of Viborg opposed him, the k<strong>in</strong>g gave him<br />
letters of protection, which enabled him to set up a<br />
Protestant school <strong>in</strong> that city,[8] the first of all the<br />
Protestant <strong>in</strong>stitutions of <strong>Denmark</strong>, <strong>and</strong> which soon<br />
became famous for the success with which, under<br />
its founder, it diffused the light of truth <strong>and</strong> piety<br />
over the k<strong>in</strong>gdom.<br />
After Johannis came a yet more illustrious man,<br />
who has earned for himself the title of the<br />
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