The European Union in Prophecy The EU in Prophecy I | Page 189

The European Union in Prophecy
bulwarks of Protestantism. 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.
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