Excerpt from The World's Cyclopedia of History, Vol. 2: Containing, Schiller's History of the Thirty Years' War; Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
Roman Catholic Church in Germany is still held fast; and precarious, indeed, would be its situation were this anchor to give way. The principal of the Ecclesiastical Reservation was strongly opposed by the Protestants; and though it was atlast adopted into the treaty of peace, its insertion was qualified with the declaration, that parties had come to no final determination on the point. Could it then be more binding on the Protestant's than Ferdinand's guarantee in favor of Protestant subjects of ecclesi astieni states was upon the Roman Catholics Thus were two import-ant subjects of dispute left unsettled in the treaty of peace, and by them the war was rekindled.
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