Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

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as the heroism of the scaffold is a spectacle more sublime, and one that will better repay an attentive study, than the heroism of the battlefield, we shall permit these martyr-patriots to pass before us one by one. The clamor that drowned their dying words has long since been hushed; and the voices of the scaffold of Prague, rising clear and loud above the momentary noise, have traveled down the years to us. Footnotes: 1. Reform. and Anti-Reform. in Bohem., vol. 1., p. 187. 2. Comenius, cap. 40. Reform. and Anti-Reform. In Bohem., vol. 1., p. 193 et seq. 3. Comenius, cap. 40, pp. 134-136. 4. "Adsuevi." (Comenius.) 5. Comenius, cap. 42. Krasinski, Slavonia, p. 146. 6. Balbin assures us that some Jesuits, despite the order to withdraw, remained in Prague disguised as coal-fire men. (Reform. and Anti- Reform. in Bohem., vol. 1., p. 336.) 184
7. Comenius, cap. 44, p. 154. 8. "Lumina et columina patriae." (Comenius, cap. 59.) 9. Comenius, pp. 209-211. Reform. and Anti- Reform. In Bohem., pp. 287- 290. 10. Comenius, pp. 211, 212. 11. "Ut muscae advolabant." (Comenius.) 12. "Nuntiatur formosissimus caelum cinxisse arcus." (Comenius.) 13. Comenius, pp. 223, 224. 14. Comenius, p. 225. 185
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Germany, which because the seat of
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Prague in 1411. The citizens interr
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capital, and the chief emporium of
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whom the late changes had been made
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consummate their auto- da-fe. At Br
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were being laid for them in the wri
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historian styles him had to pass th
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through Cracow. The pilgrims assemb
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The next move was to convoke a Syno
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domains, inhabited castles, and liv
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willing to execute their sentences.
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thought it very possible that if he
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Krasinski, Hist. Reform. Poland, vo
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although amid all these laborers we
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he feared to take the only effectua
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whether Sigismund Augustus was ever
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ample, he took upon himself the exp
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only infallible touch-stone -- "Can
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oth recognised a common foe. Accusa
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Friesland, the troubles of Alasco m
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entered the Danish harbor of Elsino
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Church; and now (1555) he dedicated
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seemed now within his reach. That w
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Pope would do, and with more order
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intercourse with some Bohemian Prot
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to the horrors of the death-bed of
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destruction, and afterwards to an e
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20. Krasinski, Slavonia, pp. 217, 2
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ecclesiastical reforms; this fortif
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in transubstantiation, and would ne
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on whom the ordinary exorcisms had
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3rdly, the marriage of priests; 4th
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decisive effects on the Kingdom of
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If a National Council could not mee
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that the Bohemian Confession was "c
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sectaries, as well as all the enemi
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There follows a long and brilliant
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efficient weapon against the attack
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11. Krasinski, Hist Reform. Poland,
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the organisation of its Church at t
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native land was not unlike that of
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convened in each district. Although
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in 1572, without having come to any
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of the Protestants, drafted a list
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what was unlawful was not binding,
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could they feel for him? Henry took
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Chapter 5 Turning of the Tide of Pr
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Poland, and whence they spread them
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of their tithes from Protestant lan
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was this danger, perhaps not forese
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years, not without glory, and was s
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3. Ibid., vol. 2., pp. 49, 50. 105
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application to business, often dict
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Fables of Aesop. His many acquireme
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others to enrich also themselves. C
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the devil, addressed to the members
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libraries to be given to the flames
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among them a few men of good talent
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that should they slip their fetters
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described by Broscius, a zealous Ro
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Vladislav was succeeded by his brot
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archbishop should have a seat in th
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Casimir returned to resume his reig
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communion were extinct or had passe
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Justice requires that we should sta
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