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6. THE NEW BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOP. 203
(Cornelius: Hist. 16). The result was that Magnus
Sommar, Magnus Haraldi of Skara, and a Dominican
friar, Martin Skytte of Abo, were consecrated on the feast
of the Epiphany, 1528, by Petrus Magni of Vesteras, with
out papal confirmation, but evidently with the old ritual.
It is said that Petrus Magni only consented to perform the
duty on the promise of Laurentius Andreas that the new
bishops should afterwards seek papal confirmation and
make an apology for Petrus to the Roman see (Anjou :
E. T., p. 244).
The coronation followed at Upsala on the i2th January.
It was noticed that the oath taken by the king was
shortened by the omission of the old promise on his part to
protect the holy Church and its persons. The coronation
sermon was preached by Olaus Petri, and contained some
remarkably free expressions of his thoughts on the posi
tion and duties of a king. The sermon was based on the
text of Deut. xvii. 15: "One from among thy brethren
shall thou set king over thee : thou mayest not put a
foreigner over thee which is not thy brother." "The
king
"
(he says)
"
must not consider himself as lord over
his brethren, but should think on the fact that he and his
subjects have all sprung from the same root. He must
also remember that the reverence, the curtseying and bow
ing, which is shown him by his subjects, is not for the
sake of his own person, but for that of his office, which he
has of God . . . and he should direct all the honour and
reverence which is shown him to God, giving Him the
praise which belongs to his office. For he is set to be a
ruler not over his own, but over God s, commonalty
(allmogen) and his fellow-brothers."
This democratic out-spokenness, as I have already said,
prevented Olaus from being a satisfactory minister of State,
and a practical politician, but it helped to endear him to
his fellow-countrymen, and to make them feel that some
of their best qualities were worthily represented in their
leading reformer.
About a year after his coronation the king wisely called
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