Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

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is mistaken in saying that this assembly took the Augsburg Confession as the rule of their faith. The Augustana Confessio was not then in existence, though it saw the light a year after (1530). The Swedish Reformers had no guide but the Bible. They taught; the birth of all men in a state of sin and condemnation; the inability of the sinner to make satisfaction by his own works; the substitution and perfect expiation of Christ; the free justification of the sinner on the ground of His righteousness, received by faith; and the good works which flow from the faith of the justified man. Those who had recovered the lights of truth, who had rekindled in their churches, after a long extinction, the lamp of the Gospel, had no need, one should think, of the tapers and other substitutes which superstition had invented to replace the eternal verities of revelation. Those temples which were illuminated with the splendor of the Gospel did not need images and pictures. It would seem, however, as if the Swedes felt that they could not yet walk alone. They borrowed the treacherous 98
help of the Popish ritual. Several of the old ceremonies were retained, but with new explanations, to divorce them if possible from the old uses. The basin of holy water still kept its place at the portal of the church; but the people were cautioned not to think that it could wash away their sins: the blood of Christ only could do that. It stood there to remind them of their baptism. The images of the saints still adorned the walls of the churches -- not to be worshipped, but to remind the people of Christ and the saints, and to incite them to imitate their piety. On the day of the purification of the Virgin, consecrated candles were used, not because there was any holiness in them, but because they typified the true Light, even Christ, who was on that day presented in the Temple of Jerusalem. In like manner, extreme unction was practiced to adumbrate the anointing of the Holy Spirit; bells were tolled, not in the old belief that they frightened the demons, but as a convenient method of convoking the people.[14] It would have been better, we are disposed to think, to have abolished some of these symbols, and then 99
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RISE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTESTAN
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attended them, the historical recor
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towns in which mechanical arts and
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likely to show itself. The dissensi
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The disaster which had overtaken th
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evolution, formed the price which F
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magnificent realms. Its quaking soi
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ancient privileges and their newly-
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"Buried in sleep of indolence profo
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When we cross the Pyrenees and ente
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Besides, the Spaniards of that age
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movement would have been its undoin
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the New; and notably in this, that
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seen to mingle with them. Solitary,
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in bold relief before the world as
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perished on the battle-field, the t
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But when that day came these hopes
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pleasure, they compelled obedience,
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Chapter 3 Introduction of Protestan
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country, with the consent of the ki
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Left without instruction by their s
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time filled by Christian II., of th
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it was provided that each kingdom s
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Page 49 and 50: They were born respectively in 1497
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Page 61 and 62: In maintaining the affirmative Gall
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Page 81 and 82: Footnotes : 1. Baazius, Invent. Ecc
Page 83 and 84: Chapter 5 Establishment of Protesta
Page 85 and 86: among his people; the power of the
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Page 101 and 102: of Upsala, the first see in Sweden,
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Page 121 and 122: V. His uncle Frederick, Duke of Hol
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to Zion with songs." In particular
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named, there were two men, both fam
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had been obliged to become an exile
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Chapter 9 Establishment of Protesta
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crowns, cowls, and anointings, but
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after the manner of the Roman Churc
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discovered that the Lutherans were
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channels than the monastery; and th
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26. -- Gerdesius, tom. 3, p. 377; e
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men" were, at the same time, to pre
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were united in favor of Christian.
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demanded that Taussan should be res
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course.[4] The other bishops were n
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overtaken by the Divine vengeance.
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adoption. The proposed decree was,
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professors and pastors of his kingd
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In the above list, as the reader wi
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exactions of the monks, and the dem
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superstition fought as stout a batt
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Grammius in his edition of Cragius'
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