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340 V. THE REFORMATION (A.t&gt;. 15201592).
Emperor Ferdinand to the Council of Trent in 1562 were
his model. But plans and suggestions made and rejected
while the Council of Trent was still sitting were still less
likely to meet with success after its dissolution in 1563,
when the personal rule of the popes was reasserted.
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King John was also much influenced by a young man,
Petrus Fecht, a scholar of Melanchthon, who inspired him
with the romantic hope (like that in which our own
tractarians have largely succeeded) of reviving
"
the
Apostolic and Catholic faith of the primitive Church
"
(Cornelius: 39).
The principal events of King John s reign may be briefly
summarized. At a Church Council, held at Stockholm, in
1574, he put forward a sort of programme in which Fecht s
principle was enunciated. He followed his father s
method of electing to the vacant archbishopric at such a
Council. Two candidates were nominated, of whom Olaus
Martini, Bishop of Linkoping, received the greatest num
ber of votes. But the king preferred the other candidate,
Laurentius Petri Gothus, a learned and much respected
man, but of more pliable character. Before his confirma
tion and consecration he was required to sign certain
articles which pledged him to support the king s plan of a
return to primitive Catholicism.
In February, 1575, a clerical assembly consisting of four
bishops and a few clergy, was held at Stockholm, which,
after six weeks deliberation, accepted the Nova Ordinantia
Ecclesiastica, comprised in twenty articles.
49
This book
48
Cassander s Consultatio may be found in a little volume
entitled Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam, edited by Hugo Grotius,
anno 1642, containing the confession of Pope Pius IV., the
Confessio Augustana, the Consultatio, with Grotius notes, and
certain poems by him, and a disquisition on "
Pelagianism."
Ferdinand s proposals in various forms, in which he had the
help of his secretary, Frederick Staphylus, and others, may be
found in J. Le Plat: Monumenta ad hist. cone. Trid., v., pp.
212-268, Lovanii, 1785. Cp. Martin Philippson : La Contre-
revolution, pp. 446-8, Bruxelles, 1884.
49
It may be found in Kyrko-ordningar, etc., I., pp. 181-351.
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