The Netherlands and Scandinavia
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In The Netherlands ... Seven hundred years before Luther's time the Roman pontiff was thus fearlessly impeached by two bishops, who, having been sent on an embassy to Rome, had learned the true character of the "holy see"...one of the provinces of Holland came Menno Simons. He soon after witnessed the beheading of a man who was put to death for having been rebaptized. This led him to
Tausen, "the Reformer of Denmark,"....In Sweden, also, young men who had drunk from the well of Wittenberg carried the water of life to their countrymen. Two of the leaders in the Swedish Reformation, Olaf and Laurentius Petri, studied under Luther and Melanchthon, and the truths which they thus learned they were diligent to teach.
A century later, at a time of sorest peril, this small and hitherto feeble nation--the only one in Europe that dared lend a helping hand--came to the deliverance of Germany in the terrible struggle of the Thirty Years' War. All Northern Europe seemed about to be brought again under the tyranny of Rome. It was the armies of Sweden that enabled Germany to turn the tide of popish success, to win toleration for the Protestants,--Calvinists as well as Lutherans,--and to restore liberty of conscience to those countries that had accepted the Reformation.
.....famous in the congregation, men of renown: Numbers 16:2