Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie
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Chapter 4<br />
Conference at Upsala<br />
THAT the ends of the conference might be<br />
ga<strong>in</strong>ed, the k<strong>in</strong>g ordered a list to be made out<br />
beforeh<strong>and</strong> of the ma<strong>in</strong> po<strong>in</strong>ts <strong>in</strong> which the<br />
Protestant Confession differed from the Pontifical<br />
religion, <strong>and</strong> that <strong>in</strong> the discussion po<strong>in</strong>t after po<strong>in</strong>t<br />
should be debated till the whole programme was<br />
exhausted. Twelve ma<strong>in</strong> po<strong>in</strong>ts of difference were<br />
noted down, <strong>and</strong> the discussion came off at Upsala<br />
<strong>in</strong> 1526. A full report has been transmitted to us by<br />
Johannes Baazius, <strong>in</strong> the eighth book of his History<br />
of the Church of <strong>Sweden</strong>,[1] which we follow,<br />
be<strong>in</strong>g, so far as we are aware the only orig<strong>in</strong>al<br />
account extant. We shall give the history of the<br />
discussion with some fullness, because it was a<br />
discussion on new ground, by new men, <strong>and</strong> also<br />
because it formed the turn<strong>in</strong>g-po<strong>in</strong>t <strong>in</strong> the<br />
Reformation of <strong>Sweden</strong>.<br />
The first question was touch<strong>in</strong>g the ancient<br />
religion <strong>and</strong> the ecclesiastical rites: was the religion<br />
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