Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie
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<strong>and</strong> who shall be judge?" The priests argued stoutly<br />
for the Lat<strong>in</strong>, the Protestants as strenuously<br />
contended that the Danish should be the tongue <strong>in</strong><br />
which the disputation should be carried on. The<br />
matter to be debated concerned all present not less<br />
than it did the personal disputants, but how could<br />
they determ<strong>in</strong>e on which side the truth lay if the<br />
discussion should take place <strong>in</strong> a language they did<br />
not underst<strong>and</strong>?[6]<br />
The second po<strong>in</strong>t was one equally hard to be<br />
settled: who shall be judge? The Protestants <strong>in</strong><br />
matters of faith would recognize no authority save<br />
that of God only speak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> his own Word,<br />
although they left it to the k<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> the nobles <strong>and</strong><br />
with the audience generally to say whether what<br />
they ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed agreed with or contradicted the<br />
<strong>in</strong>spired oracles. The Romanists, on the other h<strong>and</strong>,<br />
would accept the Holy Scriptures only <strong>in</strong> the sense<br />
<strong>in</strong> which Councils <strong>and</strong> the Fathers had <strong>in</strong>terpreted<br />
them, reserv<strong>in</strong>g an appeal to the Pope as the<br />
ultimate <strong>and</strong> highest judge. Neither party would<br />
yield, <strong>and</strong> now came the amus<strong>in</strong>g part of the<br />
bus<strong>in</strong>ess. Some of the Romanists suddenly<br />
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