text: ; the Dutch who found in his conquering arm the stay of their sinking republic and their salvation from slavery and persecution; the Germans who saw the flames of the Palatinate avenged by his resistless power and the ravages of war rolled back from the Rhine into the territory of the state which had provoked them; the Lutherans who beheld in him the appointed instrument of divine vengeance to punish the abominable perfidy and cruelty of the revocation of the edict of Nantes--have concurred in celebrating his exploits