Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

drew up a paper, which they presented to the king.
But it was rather an indictment against the
Protestants than a summary of their own creed. It
was a long list of errors and crimes against the
ancient faith of which they held their opponents
guilty! This was to pass judgment before the case
had gone to trial: it was to pass judgment in their
own cause, and ask the king to inflict the merited
punishment. It was not for so summary a
proceeding as this that Frederick had summoned
the conference.
Let us examine the heads of the Protestant
paper, mainly drawn up by Taussan, and accepted
as the Confession of the Danish Church. It declared
Holy Scripture to be the only rule of faith, and the
satisfaction of Christ in our room the only
foundation of eternal life. It defined the Church to
be the communion of the faithful, and it denied the
power of any man to cast any one out of that
Church, unless such shall have first cut himself off
from the communion of the faithful by impenitence
and sin. It affirmed that the worship of God did not
consist in canticles, masses, vigils, edifices, shaven
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