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RISE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTESTANTISM IN SWEDEN AND DENMARK.




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Chapter 1 CAUSES THAT INFLUENCED THE RECEPTION OR REJECTION OF PROTESTANTISM IN THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES.
Germany -causes disposing it toward the New Movement – Central Position – Free Towns – Sobriety and Morality of the People – Switzerland – The Swiss – Hardy-Lovers of Liberty – The New Liberty – Some Accept, some Refuse –France– Its Greatness – Protestantism in France Glorified by its Martyrs – Retribution – Bohemia and Hungary– Protestantism Flourishes there – Extinction by Austrian Tyranny – Holland – Littleness of the Country–Heroism – Holland raised to Greatness by the Struggle – Belgium – Begins Well – Faints – Sinks down under the Two-fold Yoke of Religious and Secular Despotism.
Chapter 2 FORTUNES OF PROTESTANTISM IN ITALY, SPAIN, AND BRITAIN.
Italy – Shall Italy be a Disciple of the Goth? – Pride in the Past her Stumbling-block – Spain – The Moslem Dominancy – It Intensifies Spanish Bigotry – Protestantism to be Glorified in Spain by Martyrdom – Preparations for ultimate Triumph – England – Wicliffe – Begins the New Times – Rapid View of Progress from Wicliffe to Henry VIII. – Character of the King – His Quarrel with the Pope – Protestantism Triumphs – Scotland.
Chapter 3 INTRODUCTION OF PROTESTANTISM INTO SWEDEN.
Influence of Germany on Sweden and Denmark – Planting of Christianity in Sweden – A Mission Church till the Eleventh Century – Organized by Rome in the Twelfth – Wealth and Power of the Clergy – Misery of the Kingdom – Arcimbold – Indulgences – Christian II. of Denmark – Settlement of Calmar – Christian II. Subdues the Swedes – Cruelties – He is Expelled – Gustavus Vasa – Olaf and Lawrence Patersen – They begin to Teach the Doctrines of Luther – They Translate the Bible – Proposed Translation by the Priests – Suppression of Protestant Version Demanded – King Refuses – A Disputation Agreed on.
Chapter 4 CONFERENCE AT UPSALA.
Programme of Debate – Twelve Points – Authority of the Fathers – Power of the Clergy – Can Ecclesiastical Decrees Bind the Conscience? – Power of Excommunication – The Pope's Primacy – Works or Grace, which saves? – Has Monkery warrant in Scripture? – Question of the Institution of the Lord's Supper – Purgatory – Intercession of the Saints – Lessons of the Conference – Conscience Quickened by the Bible produced the Reformation.
Chapter 5 ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTESTANTISM IN SWEDEN.
The Battles of Religion – More Fruitful than those of Kings – Consequences of the Upsala Conference – The King adopts a Reforming Policy – Clergy Refuse the War-levy – Conference respecting Ecclesiastical Possessions and Immunities – Secret Compact of Bishops – A Civil War imminent – Vasa threatens to Abdicate – Diet resolves to Receive the Protestant Religion – 13,000 Estates Surrendered by the Romish Church – Reformation in 1527 – Coronation of Vasa – Ceremonies and Declaration – Reformation Completed in 1529 – Doctrine and Worship of the Reformed Church of Sweden – Old Ceremonies Retained – Death and Character of Gustavus Vasa – Eric XIV. – John – The "Red Book " – Relapse – A Purifying Fire.
Chapter 6 PROTESTANTISM IN SWEDEN, FROM VASA (1530) TO CHARLES IX. (1604).
Ebb in Swedish Protestantism – Sigismund a Candidate for the Throne-His Equivocal Promise – Synod of Upsala, 1593 – Renew their Adherence to the Augsburg Confession – Abjure the "Red Book" – Their Measure of Toleration – The Nation joyfully Adheres to the Declaration of the Upsala Convocation – Sigismund Refuses to Subscribe – The Diet Withholds the Crown – He Signs and is Crowned – His Short Reign – Charles IX. – His Death – A Prophecy.
Chapter 7 INTRODUCTION OF PROTESTANTISM INTO DENMARK.
Paul Elia – Inclines to Protestantism – Returns to Rome – Petrus Parvus – Code of Christian II. – The New Testament in Danish – Georgius Johannis – Johannis Taussanus – Studies at Cologne – Finds Access to Luther's Writings – Repairs to Wittemberg – Returns to Denmark – Re-enters the Monastery of Antvorskoborg – Explains the Bible to the Monks – Transferred to the Convent of Viborg – Expelled from the Convent – Preaches in the City – Great Excitement in Viborg, and Alarm of the Bishops – Resolve to invite Doctors Eck and Cochlaeus to Oppose Taussan – Their Letter to Eck – Their Picture of Lutheranism – Their Flattery of Eck – He Declines the Invitation.
Chapter 8 CHURCH-SONG IN DENMARK.
Paul Elia Opposes – Harangues the Soldiery in the Citadel – Tumults – The King summons a Meeting of the Estates at Odensee – His Address to the Bishops – Edict of Toleration – Church-Song – Ballad-Poetry of Denmark – Out-burst of Sacred Psalmody – Nicolaus Martin – Preaches outside the Walls of Malmoe – Translates the German Hymns into Danish – The Psalms Translated – Sung Universally in Denmark – Nicolaus Martin Preaches inside Malmoe – Theological College Established there – Preachers sent through Denmark – Taussan Removed to Copenhagen – New Translation of the New Testament.
Chapter 9 ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTESTANTISM IN DENMARK.
The King summons a Conference – Forty-three Articles of the Protestants – Agreement with the Augsburg Confession – Romanist Indictment against Protestants – Its Heads – In what Language shall the Debate take place? – Who shall be Judge? – The Combat Declined at the Eleventh Hour – Declaration of Protestant Pastors – Proclamation of the King – Dissolution of the Monasteries, etc.. – Establishment of Protestantism – Transformation undergone by Denmark.
Chapter 10 PROTESTANTISM UNDER CHRISTIAN III., AND ITS EXTENSION TO NORWAY AND ICELAND.
Scheme for Restoring the Old Faith Abortive – Unsuccessful Invasion of the Country by Christian II. – Death of the King – Interregnum of Two Years – Priestly Plottings and Successes – Taussan Condemned to Silence and Exile – The Senators Besieged by an Armed Mob in the Senate House – Taussan given up – Bishops begin to Persecute – Inundations, etc. – Christian III. Ascends the Throne – Subdues a Revolt – Assembles the Estates at Copenhagen – The Bishops Abolished – New Ecclesiastical Constitution framed, 1547 – Bugenhagen – The Seven Superintendents – Bugenhagen Crowns the King – Denmark Flourishes – Establishment of Protestantism in Norway and Iceland.




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