Piotr Nater
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Charles at first behaved with great circumspection, adopted moderate and safe measures, and conducted the government by the authority and with the full assent of Zigismund.
But the latter could not help being jealous of his uncle.
To weaken his influence he appointed noblemen devoted to his own cause, who were independent of Charles' authority as governors and commanders in Estonia and Finland.
This gave serious offence to the Duke, and led him to take the first step toward a rupture with the king.
He entered into a covenant with the council to conduct the administration without prejudice to their fealty to Zigismund under conjoint responsibility, each for all and all for each.
He gave his opposition to the king a still more pronounced character by convoking a diet, and at the same time a church synod
notes at Uppsala in fifteen ninety three.
Religion and liberty, he said to those assembled there, are my father's gifts to our country.
It is our duty to preserve them now that we have a foreign king, whose conscience is under thraldom to the Pope.
He stirred up all the patriotic and religious sentiments of the Swedes.
Well could the Protestant Bishop Petrusionas say joyfully Now Sweden has become one man, and we all have one God.
All of John's religious innovations, the red book included, were abolished, and Luther's doctrine restored in its purity.
All accepted this step voluntarily.
There was no violent reaction and no persecution.
to mar the national victory.
This Upsala Assembly of fifteen ninety three rendered impossible any future attempt to Catholicise the country.
It established Protestantism in Sweden on an immovable foundation, and it prepared the way for the great work of Gustavus Adolphus.
Charles had proceeded with great prudence.
He had simply set things in motion, and as soon as he saw they were moving as he wished, he had stepped aside, merely subscribing to the decisions of the Diet and Assembly.
Thus, without making himself prominent or assuming an attitude of direct opposition to the king, he had become the leader of the national protestant movement, which carried with it the overwhelming majority of the Swedish people.
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