Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

lock and the stake, as some other countries were
required to do. This, doubtless, was a blessing for
the men of that generation; that it was so for the
men of the following ones we are not prepared to
maintain. Men must buy with a great price that; on
which they are to put a lasting value. The martyrs
of one's kindred and country always move one
more than those of other lands, even though it is
the same cause for which their blood has been
poured out.[6]
The calamities of the two unhappy years that
divided the decease of Frederick I. from the
election of his successor, or rather his quiet
occupation of the throne, were augmented by the
rage of the elements. The waters of the sky and the
floods of ocean seemed as if they had conspired
against a land already sufficiently afflicted by the
bitterness of political parties and the bigotry of
superstitious zealots. Great Inundations took place.
In some instances whole towns were overflowed,
and many thousands of their inhabitants were
drowned. "Ah!" said the adherents of the old
worship to the Protestants, "now at last you are
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