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with mine when it shall please God to call me
hence.
To corroborate this my last Will and Testament I have
signed and sealed it with my own hand and present
witnesses have moreover subscribed it.
Datum Stockholm, March the 29th, Anno 1653.
David Ramsay.
(L. S.) Willem Sinklair, Witness.
Marcus Ker, „
John Traill, „
Gustavus Adolphus’s Prayer after the landing on the Island
of Rugen of the Pomeranian Coast, on 4th July, 1630.
The following is the report of an eye- and ear-witness. It
is preserved among the documents referring to the “Tyskan
Kriget” (German War) in the Riks-Arkivet, Stockholm.
“When His Maj. of Sweden,” the writer says, “had
landed on Riigen and looked round on all the places,
he raised His eyes to Heaven publicly and in the presence
of many officers and captains from Stralsund and prayed
with folded hands thus: 4 O righteous and supreme and
insuperable God, Lord of Heaven and Earth. Known to
Thee is my heart and mind and intention that this my
high work has been undertaken not for my honour but
for Thine own and that of Thine oppressed Christian
peoples. Therefore if it be Thy good Will and the proper
time, grant me weather and Wind that my army which I
have collected out of many nations may soon join me.’
“ But when the eyes of those standing around him
began to overflow and he saw it, he said: 4 Yes, yes, that
alone will not do it; but pray with me, for where
there is much prayer there is the much more help! ’ ”
(5th July, 1630).
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