Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania - James Aitken Wylie

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they saw the magnificent procession of Corpus Christi sweeping past, "seeing they light candles to him at midday?" Others declared that the singing of the "hours" to Our Lady in the cathedral was folly, for the Lord had taught them to pray, "Our Father who art in heaven." The priests were occasionally ridiculed while occupied in the performance of their worship; some of them were turned out of office, and Protestant preachers put in their room; and others, when they came to gather in their tithes, were sent away without their "ducks and geese." This cannot be justified; but surely it in becomes Rome, in presence of her countless crimes, to be the first to cast a stone at these offenders. Rome saw the thunder-cloud gathering above her, and she made haste to dispel it before it should burst. At the instigation of the Papal legate, Cajetan, Louis II. issued the terrible edict of 1523, which ran as follows: -- "All Lutherans, and those who favor them, as well as all adherents to their sect, shall ]have their property confiscated, and themselves be punished with death, as heretics, and foes of the most holy Virgin Mary." 6
A commission was next appointed to search for Lutheran books in the Transylvanian mountains and the Hungarian towns, and to burn hem. Many an auto-da-fe of heretical volumes blazed in the public squares; but these spectacles did not stop the progress of heresy. "Hermanstadt became a second Wittemberg. The Catholic ministers themselves confessed that the new doctrine was not more powerful in the town where Luther resided."[2] It was next resolved to burn, not Lutheran books merely, but Lutherans themselves. So did the Diet of 1525 command: -- "All Lutherans shall be rooted out of the land; and wherever they are found, either by clergymen or laymen, they may be seized and burned."[3] These two decrees appeared only to inflame the courage of those whom they so terribly menaced. The heresy, over which the naked sword was now suspended, spread all the faster. Young men began to resort to Wittemberg, and returned thence in a few years to preach the Gospel in their native land. Meanwhile the king and the priests, who had bent the bow and were about to let fly the arrow, found other matters to 7
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eginning of the business on occasio
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almost banished, by the manner in w
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Chapter 4 Leopold I and the Jesuits
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count. Hommono's example was follow
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ox than for the throne. While yet a
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alchemy, and divination furnished h
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ferocious man stood up at the head
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fled on the approach of the militar
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turning pale, immediately retired.[
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The corporate trades of Raab and ot
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enacted toleration, and threatened
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hour were darkened to Austria. On t
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The Jesuits, who inspired the royal
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would hasten to report what he had
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ought, and from that hour the king
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Hardly had the scaffolds of the mag
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The old man was put into a cart and
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een invincible before the terrible
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out the sentences, judged that thei
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far answer the ends of their persec
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wished that their persecutors would
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succeeded in making their escape, a
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Hungarian pastern still continued f
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"Putting their lives in their hands
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published at Amsterdam, 1665, under
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