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LECTURE VI.
THE GREAT KINGS AND THE GREAT BISHOPS FROM THE
UPSALA-MOTE TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES XII. (1593
A.D. 1718 A.D.).
i. CONSEQUENCES OF KING JOHN S DEATH. DANGER
OF THE CHURCH. DAVID CHYTR^US AND
NlCOLAUS BOTNIENSIS. NECESSITY THAT SWEDEN
SHOULD AT ONCE MAKE A FREE AND DEFINITE CHOICE
OF STANDARDS. CHARACTER OF DUKE CHARLES.
HlS GREAT SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY.
The death of John III. in 1592 brought with it the com
plete and definite victory of Lutheranism in the form of an
acceptance by the whole of Sweden of the Confession of
Augsburg as presented to the Emperor Charles V. in the
year 1530. This confession was the work of Melanchthon,
and it was to Melanchthon s most zealous and beloved
scholar, David Chytraeus, born himself in the year 1530,
that the later generation of Swedish theologians owed their
training. As professor at the University of Rostock,
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near
Warnemiinde in Mecklenburg, Chytraeus was near enough
to keep up a constant correspondence with Sweden, and he
often was consulted on difficult questions, as, for example,
on Gustaf Vasa s third marriage. His history of the
Confession of Augsburg, published in 1578, no doubt was
in the hands of some of his former pupils. Foremost
amongst these pupils was Nicolaus Olai Botniensis, a
Hebraist and Biblical scholar, who had studied under
Chytraeus for some four years (1578 1582), and taught at
*Two books by Krabbe are referred to Die Universitdt
Rostock im i$ten und i6ten Jahrhundert, Rostock and
Schwerin, 1854, and David Chyihrceus, Rostock, 1870. See also
A. M. Magnusson : Nicolaus Olai Botniensis, pp. 11-23, Upsala,
1898.
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