Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

strayed from this Holy Rule. At the Easter of 1524
he preached a sermon setting forth the
insufficiency of good works, and the need of an
imputed righteousness in order to the sinner's
justification. "All the blind supporters of the
Pontifical superstition," says the historian, "were in
arms against him."[13] The disguise was now
dropped.
There was one man whose wrath the sermon of
the young monk had specially roused, the prior of
the convent, Eskildus, a bigoted upholder of the
ancient religion, and the person who had sent
Taussan abroad, whence he had brought back the
doctrine, the preaching of which had converted his
former friend into his bitter enemy.
That he might not corrupt the monks, or bring
on the monastery of Antvorskoborg, which had
preserved till this hour its good name untarnished,
the terrible suspicion of heresy, the prior formed
the resolution of transferring Taussan to the
convent of Viborg, where a strict watch would be
kept upon him, and he would have fewer
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