The Baptists in Sweden. By Mrs. M.F. Anderson ...

EARLY RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF SWEDEN. 23
and had a care for peace and harmony among the
King's subjects-such as so vindicated the privileges of the church that they did no harm to the
crown."
The Pope had demanded the restoration of the
odious Troll6 to his ecclesiastical dignities, and was
unwilling to make any terms unlessi that point
was gained. Gustavus replied indignantly to the
demand. "He was surprised that the Apostolic
See takes this bishop, the foremost cooperator in the
godless murder of nobles and bishops, under its protection, and wishes again to place him on the pinnacle of the Swedish Church, whose liberties he has
thrown to the ground." " It were a grief to us,"
he adds, "that the Apostolic See could not avenge
the murder of the bishops. But still less can we
endure that this archbishop should return to Sweden, who is not only unworthy of the priesthood but
of life itself." His language next rises to the dignity of solemn protest, and when Gustavus Wasa
used such words they were full of meaning. "We
acknowledge ourselves to hold in such high reverence the holy Roman Church, that we would willingly offer our blood and life for it; but this act
of severity which threatens our commonwealth with
such disasters we shall endeavor to arrest, with our
blood if so required, and will show, if it be necessary, in the face of all Christian princes, how justifiably we have resisted such an outrage." He concludes by courteously intimating that, if the Pope