variety of more private reasons which influenced the different powers of Germany, to produce the peace concluded in the month of August at Passau; in which, amongst other articles, it was stipulated that a Diet should be held within six months to deliberate concerning the most effectual method of preventing in future all disputes in religion; that in the mean time neither the Emperor nor any other prince should upon any pretext whatever offer injury or violence to such as adhered to the Confession
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