Download or read book The Life of King John Sobieski: John the Third of Poland; A Christian Knight the Savior of Christendom (Classic Reprint) written by Count John Sobieski and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of King John Sobieski: John the Third of Poland; A Christian Knight the Savior of Christendom The seventeenth century was one of the great centuries of the world along all lines of human activities. In art, in science and in religious thought there was more advancement than there had been for centuries before. The Reformation had obtained such dimensions that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy had become acutely aware that it must, henceforth, fight for its existence. The Thirty Years' War is a proof of this statement. Gustavus Adolphus, the Snow King, of Sweden, had made the Catholic Powers tremble by bis wonderful victories and had he not met his death so early, on the field of battle, in all probability the reformed religion would have advanced to the front immediately and have become the dominant faith of the Continent; but while the Catholic and Protestant chiefs were fighting terrific battles for supremacy, there suddenly appeared a mutual enemy which threatened to destroy Christendom itself, for it had been the dream of each successor of the great Mohammed that the Mohammedan religion should become the world's universal faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.