Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

The razing of the churches in many places was
consequent on the expulsion of the pastors. Better
that they should be ruinous heaps than that they
should remain to be occupied by the men who were
now brought to fill them. The lowest of the priests
were drafted from other places to enjoy the vacant
livings, and fleece, not feed, the desolate flocks.
There could not be found so many curates as there
were now empty churches in Bohemia; and two,
six, nay, ten or a dozen parishes were committed to
the care of one man. Under these hirelings the
people learned the value of that Gospel which they
had, perhaps too easily, permitted to be taken from
them, in the persons of their banished pastors.
Some churches remained without a priest for years;
"but the people," says Comenius, "found it a less
affliction to lack wholesome instruction than to
resort to poisoned pastures, and become the prey of
wolves."[5]
A number of monks were imported from
Poland, that country being near, and the language
similar, but their dissolute lives were the scandal of
that Christianity which they were brought to teach.
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