Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

was this danger, perhaps not foreseen or not much
taken into account in Poland at the moment,
namely, that the Jesuits were busy manipulating the
youth, and that whenever public opinion should be
ripe for a concordat between the bishops and the
Government, this spiritual code would start up into
an undisguisedly temporal one, having at its
service all the powers of the State, and enforcing
its commands with the sword.
What was now introduced into Poland was a
new and more refined policy than the Church of
Rome had as yet employed in her battles with
Protestantism. Hitherto she had filled her hand with
the coarse weapons of material force -- the armies
of the Empire and the stakes of the Inquisition. But
now, appealing less to the bodily senses, and more
to the faculties of the soul, she began at Trent, and
continued in Poland, the plan of creating a body of
legislation, the pseudo-divine sanctions of which,
in many instances, received submission where the
terrors of punishment would have been withstood.
The sons of Loyola came first, moulding opinion';
and the bishops came after, framing canons in
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