Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

hand, and its very emphatic teaching, on the other,
that there is but one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus.[12]
The conference was now at an end. The stage
on which this conference was conducted was an
obscure one compared with that of Wittemberg and
Augsburg, and the parties engaged in it were but of
secondary rank compared with the great chiefs
between whom previous contests of a similar kind
had been waged; but the obscurity of the stage, and
the secondary rank of the combatants, are the very
reasons why we have given it so prominent a place
in our history of the movement. It shows us the sort
of men that formed the rank and the of the army of
the Reformers. They were not illiterate, sectarian,
noisy controversialists -- far from it; they were men
who had studied the Word of God, and knew well
how to wield the weapons with which the armory
of the Bible supplied them. In respect of erudition
they were ahead of their age. When we confine our
attention to such brilliant centers as Wittemberg
and Zurich, and to such illustrious names as those
of Luther and Melancthon, of Zwingle and
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