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being in truth the Word that giveth life. This fruitage
was apparent during the trying period up to 1573, when
that patient but staunch Lutheran, Laurentius Petri,
occupied the archiepiscopal chair, and more especially
in the Decree of the Uppsala Council in 1593. Then
and there the unaltered Augsburg Confession was
unanimously adopted. Following that significant act,
Professsor Nikolaus Botniensis, presiding at the
Council, made the memorable declaration: "Now is Sweden
become as one man, and we all have one Lord and
God." The truth of his words was subsequently proved
in the war waged by Gustav II. Adolf in defense of
the Protestant cause.
As rector of Storkyrkan in Stockholm, Olavus Petri
until his death faithfully continued his pastoral work,
preaching the gospel of Christ earnestly, clearly, and in
its unadulterated purity. Possibly the work of his last
years was carried on with some degree of
disappointment, there being no signs of any great general revival
for repentance and faith among his beloved
countrymen. A letter from Bishop Michael Agricola, the
church reformer of Finland, to Amund Lorentzen,
a Stockholm publisher, written about a year before
Olavus Petri died, throws light on this period of his
life. It tells of the difficult and oppressive conditions
under which the Finnish Reformation was carried out
and further affords a glimpse of the high popular
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