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8. PRESBYTERIAN POLICY OF GUSTAF. 22$
most beautiful that had as yet appeared in any Swedish
book (Anjou :
pp. 311-2).
The Riksdag of Vesteras, held in 1544, is memorable
on two accounts, for the grant of hereditary right to the
Vasa family, and for a new ordinantia in Church matters,
which carried the Reformation some steps further, but
imposed no new confession of faith.
39
The organization
of the Church was further regulated by the Vadstena
articles put out in 1553, probably by the archbishop.
The king, however, took both Church and State into his
own and almost sole hands, and ruled in patriarchal
fashion, much after the manner that Queen Elizabeth
affected in England, but in more minute detail. The arch
bishop felt deeply the want of Church order and discipline
of a spiritual character, and regretted the impossibility of
having a Prayer Book put out by Church authority.
40
His
relations with the king were, on the whole, good. He had
a higher idea of kingly dignity and grace than Olaus had,
and was doubtless better able to sympathize with the
stronger and better side of Gustaf s character. Their re
lations, however, were rather seriously troubled by the
king s determination to marry his second wife s, Mar
garet s, niece, Kristina Stenbock. The archbishop and
most of the bishops thought, as Cranmer 41
and the English
theologians and lawyers thought, that such a marriage,
though not contrary to the letter of Scripture, was
forbidden by inference from its other prohibitions.
The marriage was, in consequence, performed by the
39
See for some details Anjou: p. 315, E. T. On line 16,
"
consecration "
should surely be
"
marriage
"
(vigsel).
40
"Sjelf sages ban ar 1563 halfva yttrat, att ban i mer an
trettio ar forgafves sokt att fa utfarda en Kyrdo-ordning."
Handlingar rorande Sv. Hist., Kyrko-ordningar, etc., part I.,
p. xvii., Stk., 1872.
41
Cranmer had so decided in 1536 : see my Law of the Church
as to the marriage of a man -with his deceased wife s sister, pp.
40-1, S.P.C.K., 1908. The prohibition is contained in Arch
bishop Parker s Table of kindred and affinity (Nos. 29, 30)
drawn up apparently in 1560, and put out in 1563.
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