Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

lift him up and give him back his crown? Had he
forgotten the Colloquy of Poissy, which the King
of France, then a child, had been pemuaded to
permit to take place? What had that disputation
proved but a trumpet of revolt, which had banished
peace from France, not since to return? In that
unhappy country, whose inhabitants were parted by
bitter feuds and contending factions, whose fields
were reddened by the sword of civil war, whose
throne was being continually shaken by sedition
and revolt, the king might see the picture of what
Poland would become should he give his consent
to the meeting of a Council, where all doctrines
would be brought into question, and all things
reformed without reference to the canons of the
Church, and the authority of the Pope.
Commendoni was a skillful limner; he made the
king hear the roar of the tempest which he foretold;
Sigismund Augustus felt as if his throne were
already rocking beneath him; the peace-loving
monarch revoked the permission he had been on
the point of giving; he would not permit the
Council to convene.[6]
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