. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . him en-gaged in the transla-tion of the , toward theclose of the reign, hedeveloped a more gen-eral literary his worksfrom this period wenotice a postil and aSwedish history. Stilllater he appeared asa hymnologist. During the reign ofErik XIV. he took anactive part in variouscontroversies. Theking had had a cer-tain French protest-ant as a teacherthrough whose in-fluence he had ac-quired a preference for Calvinism, and during the first part of hisreign he seemed to prefer that church. On this account the agedarc
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . him en-gaged in the transla-tion of the , toward theclose of the reign, hedeveloped a more gen-eral literary his worksfrom this period wenotice a postil and aSwedish history. Stilllater he appeared asa hymnologist. During the reign ofErik XIV. he took anactive part in variouscontroversies. Theking had had a cer-tain French protest-ant as a teacherthrough whose in-fluence he had ac-quired a preference for Calvinism, and during the first part of hisreign he seemed to prefer that church. On this account the agedarchbirhop published several controversial papers, in which his toneis not as temperate as his brothers had been, but at times evenfierce and bitter. At first the controversy related to certain bap-tismal ceremonies which the Lutherans had retained, but theReformed had rejected; such as the dbrenunciation, or the renuncia-tion by the sponsors on the part of the child of the devil and all hisworks, and the exorcism (§11). Both of these practices were de-. Laurentius Petri. THE LUTHERAN CHURCH 229 fended by the archbishop and were retained in the Swedish Churchup to the opening of the nineteenth century. Then followed a sharp controversy about the Lords Supper, inwhich Laurentius Petri took a position in many respects approach-ing that of the Catholic Church. In other respects he was of courseno friend of Catholicism. Even during the last year of his life hewrote three especially sharp papers against the Catholic Churchand a Catholic priest, who staid at the Court of queen Catherineof Jagello, and who had made an attack upon his book on theregulations of the Swedish Church. It is with a feeling of relief that we turn from these contro-versies to another phase of his comprehensive labors. He has lefta lasting monument to his name in his Church Regulations of 1571,the result of hard labor, ripe experince, and devoted love to theSwedish Church. After several revisions it was given to
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