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Correspondence Fraternelle; The SPCK, The SPG, and the Churches of Switzerland in the War of the Spanish Succession

1979; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 2; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0143045900000685

2632-9913

Eamon Duffy,

Historical Studies on Spain

Throughout the last quarter of the seventeenth century a spectre was haunting Europe, the spectre of Catholicism. The Savoyard invasion of the Vaudois, the accession of a catholic elector in the Palatinate, the ill-judged policies of James II in England, above all the revocation of the edict of Nantes in France, served to persuade protestants of the dangers besetting the reformation. The nine years war, therefore, could be looked on as a crusade, and William III as God’s instrument for the preservation of the Gospel, Ezechias Alterus, Europae totius tutelaris Pater, Hostium veritatis Flagellum . The peace which followed the treaty of Ryswick did not materially alter this view; refugees from France, Orange and Piedmont provided uncomfortable reminders that the Beast was not dead, but sleeping.