Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

The next move was to convoke a Synod (1552)
at Piotrkow. At that Convocation, the afterwards
celebrated Cardinal Hosius produced a summary of
the Roman faith, which he proposed all priests and
all of senatorial and equestrian degree should be
made to subscribe. Besides the fundamental
doctrines of Romanism, this creed of Hosius made
the subscriber express his belief in purgatory, in the
worship of saints and images, in the efficacy of
holy water, of fasts, and similar rites.[11] The
suggestion of Hosius was adopted; all priests were
ordered to subscribe this test, and the king was
petitioned to exact subscription to it from all the
officers of his Government, and all the nobles of
his realm. The Synod further resolved to set on foot
a Vigorous war against heresy, to support which a
tax was to be levied on the clergy. It was sought to
purchase the assistance of the king by offering him
the confiscated property of all condemned
heretics.[12] It seemed as if Poland was about to be
lighted up with martyr-piles.
A beginning was made with Nicholaus, Rector
of Kurow. This good man began in 1550 to preach
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