Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

doctrine of the Lord's Supper. If change there had
been since the days of Luther on the question of
consubstantiation, it was in the direction of still
greater rigidity and tenacity, accompanied with a
growing intolerance toward the other branches of
the great Protestant family, of which some
melancholy proofs have come before us. How
much the heart of John Alasco was set on healing
these divisions, and how small a measure of
success attended his efforts to do so, we have
already seen.
The project was again revived. The main
opposition to it came from the Lutherans. The
Bohemian Church now numbered upwards of 200
congregations in Moravia and Poland,[8] but the
Lutherans accused them of being heretical.
Smarting from the reproach, and judging that to
clear their orthodoxy would pave the way for
union, the Bohemians submitted their Confession
to the Protestant princes of Germany, and all the
leading Reformers of Europe, including Peter
Martyr and Bullinger at Zurich, and Calvin and
Beza at Geneva. A unanimous verdict was returned
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