Footnote 451: Geijer, ii. p. 65. Footnote 452: Geijer, ii. p. 65. Raumer, ii. p. 132. Footnote 453: ‘Es fehlte wenig dass die gemeinen Leute seine Füsse küssten.’—Geijer, ii. p. 65. Footnote 454: Gerdesius, _Ann._, iii. pp. 311-313. Geijer, ii. pp. 66, 67. Footnote 455: ‘Introducentes in solium regni quandoque externos reges.’—Gerdesius, _Ann._ iii. p. 313. Footnote 456: ‘Rex jam non clam sed palam se doctrinæ evangelicæ esse addictum profiteri.’—Gerdesius, _Ann._ iii. p. 317. Footnote 457: Gerdesius, _Ann._ iii. p. 312. Raumer, ii. p. 133. Geijer, ii. p. 68. Schinmeier, p. 73. Footnote 458: Gerdesius, _Ann._ iii. p. 318. Schinmeier, p. 76. CHAPTER X. ‘CESAROPAPIE.’ (1528-1546.) In pursuance of the resolutions of Westeraas, the Reformation had been introduced in every part of the kingdom. But there was a large number of Swedes who still closed their eyes to the light which had arisen upon their native land. Many of the priests who retained their posts retained with them the Romish dogmas; and, taking their stand between their parishioners and the Gospel, persuaded them that any change in the services of the church was an apostasy from Christianity. The kingdom thus presented the spectacle of a grotesque medley of evangelical doctrines and Romish rites. Exorcism was practised in connection with baptism, and when the dead were buried, prayers were made for their deliverance out of purgatory. The king, therefore, determined to convoke a synod, which should be authorized to complete the work of reformation, to abolish the superstitious services of Rome, to set aside the Pope, and to establish the Holy Scriptures as the sole authority in matters of religion.[459] [Sidenote: The Synod At Orebro.]