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io. SYNCRETISM. CHARLES XI. AND ABSOLUTISM. 299
io. MATTHIAS WRITINGS. INFLUENCE OF COMENIUS.
CONFIRMATION RE-INTRODUCED. SYNCRETISM.
CHARLES X. SUCCEEDS (1654 1660). FAVOURS
MATTHI^: AND TERSERUS. THEY ARE ACCUSED OF
HERESY AND OBLIGED TO RESIGN (1664). ABSOLU
TISM UNDER CHARLES XI. (1660 1697). NEW
RELATION OF THE KING TO THE CHURCH. NEW
CHURCH LAW OF 1686. Liber Concordice.
After Durie s departure Matthiae still continued to work
somewhat intermittently and cautiously in the same direc
tion. About 1641 he was cheered by a visit from the
famous Moravian bishop and educationalist, John Amos
Comenius (1592 1670), who had just been on a mission
from Poland to England. Matthiae received from him
suggestions on many practical matters, which he embodied
in his introductory address delivered at the first annual
synod of his diocese of Strengnas, and published in 1644,
under the title Idea boni ordinis in Ecclesia Christi, based
on the usual text
"
Let all things be done decently and in
order
"
(i Cor. xiv. 40). The most interesting to us is the
section De forma recipiendi Novitios. The form of receiv
ing adults from another communion is first described.
They are to be examined as to their faith, to make promises
of obedience to God and the Church, to be admonished as
to perseverance, etc., and then to be admitted into fellow
ship. Juniors are to be received before admission to holy
communion by reading of a suitable passage of Scripture,
with a very short explanation, by examination as to
whether they will renew their baptismal covenant with
God, and renounce Satan, the world and the flesh, and by
reciting the Apostles Creed. Then they are to say a
prayer for pardon, to be followed by an absolution, and a
permission to partake of the Lord s table, to be followed by
laying on of hands, and a further invocation upon them of
the divine name to strengthen their hope of heavenly
grace.
49
The Swedish form, which has also been pre-
19
The Latin description and the form that follows in Swedish
are given by F. N. Ekdahl : Om Confirmation en, pp. 98 foil.
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