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Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

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ecame rottenness, <strong>and</strong> blight deepened <strong>in</strong>to death;<br />

but <strong>Protestantism</strong> did not perish alone. The throne,<br />

the country, the people, all went down with it <strong>in</strong> a<br />

catastrophe so awful that no one could have<br />

effected it but the Jesuit.<br />

Footnotes:<br />

1. See his Life by Rescius (Reszka), Rome, 1587.<br />

Numerous editions have been published of his<br />

works; the best is that of Cologne, 1584,<br />

conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g his letters to many of the more<br />

em<strong>in</strong>ent of his contemporaries.<br />

2. Lukaszewicz (a Popish author), History of the<br />

Helvetian Churches of Lithuania, vol. 1., pp.<br />

47, 85. <strong>and</strong> vol. 2., p. 192; Posen, 1842, 1843 -<br />

- apud Kras<strong>in</strong>ski, Slavonia,..... pp. 289, 294.<br />

3. Albert Wengiersi<br />

4. A Spanish Jesuit who compiled a grammar<br />

which the Jesuits used <strong>in</strong> the schools of<br />

<strong>Pol<strong>and</strong></strong>.<br />

5. Dialogue of a L<strong>and</strong>owner with a Parish Priest.<br />

The work, published about 1620, excited the<br />

violent anger of the Jesuits; but be<strong>in</strong>g unable<br />

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