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PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND AND BOHEMIA.

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Chapter 1 RISE AND SPREAD OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND.
The "Catholic Restoration " – First Introduction of Christianity into Poland – Influence of Wicliffe and Huss – Luther – The Light Shines on Dantzic – The Ex-Monk Knade – Rashness of the Dantzic Reformers – The Movement thrown back – Entrance of Protestantism into Thorn and other Towns – Cracow – Secret Society, and Queen Bona Sforza – Efforts of Romish Synods to Arrest the Truth – Entrance of Bohemian Protestants into Poland – Their great Missionary Success – Students leave Cracow: go to Protestant Universities – Attempt at Coercive Measures – They Fail – Cardinal Hosius – A Martyr – The Priests in Conflict with the Nobles – National Diet of 1552 – Auguries – Abolition of the Temporal Jurisdiction of the Bishops.

Chapter 2 JOHN ALASCO, AND REFORMATION OF EAST FRIESLAND.
No One Leader – Many Secondary Ones – King Sigismund Augustus – His Character – Favourably Disposed to Protestantism – His Vacillations – Project of National Reforming Synod – Opposed by the Roman Clergy – John Alasco – Education – Goes to Louvain – Visits Zwingle – His Stay with Erasmus – Recalled to Poland – Purges himself from Suspicion of Heresy – Proffered Dignities – He Severs himself from the Roman Church – Leaves Poland – Goes to East Friesland – Begins its Reformation – Difficulties – Triumph of Alasco – Goes to England – Friendship with Cranmer – Becomes Superintendent of the Foreign Church in London – Retires to Denmark on Death of Edward VI. – Persecutions and Wanderings – Returns to Poland – His Work there – Prince Radziwill – His Attempts to Reform Poland – His Dying Charge to his Son – His Prophetic Words to Sigismund Augustus.

Chapter 3 ACME OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND.
Arts of the Pope's Legate-Popish Synod – Judicial Murder – A Miracle – The King asks the Pope to Reform the Church – Diet of 1563 – National Synod craved – Defeated by the Papal Legate – His Representations to the King – The King Gained over – Project of a Religious Union – Conference of the Protestants – Union of Sandomir – Its Basis – The Eucharistic Doctrine of the Polish Protestant Church – Acme of Protestantism in Poland.

Chapter 4 ORGANISATION OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF POLAND.
Several Church Organisations in Poland – Causes – Church Government in Poland a Modified Episcopacy – The Superintendent – His Powers – The Senior, etc. – The Civil Senior – The Synod the Supreme Authority – Local and Provincial Synods – General Convocation-Two Defects in this Organisation – Death of Sigismund Augustus – Who shall Succeed him? – Coligny proposes the Election of a French Prince – Montluc sent as Ambassador to Poland – Duke of Anjou Elected – Pledges – Attempted Treacheries – Coronation – Henry Attempts to Evade the Oath – Firmness of the Polish Protestants – The King's Unpopularity and Flight.

Chapter 5 TURNING OF THE TIDE OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND.
Stephen Bathory Elected to the Throne – His Midnight Interview – Abandons Protestantism, and becomes a Romanist – Takes the Jesuits under his Patronage – Builds and Endows Colleges for them – Roman Synod of Piotrkow – Subtle Policy of the Bishops for Recovering their Temporal Jurisdiction – Temporal Ends gained by Spiritual Sanctions – Spiritual Terrors versus Temporal Punishments – Begun Decadence of Poland – Last Successes of its Arms – Death of King Stephen – Sigismund III. Succeeds – " The King of the Jesuits."

Chapter 6 THE JESUITS ENTER POLAND – DESTRUCTION OF ITS PROTESTANTISM.
Cardinal Hosius – His Acquirements – Prodigious Activity – Brings the Jesuits into Poland – They rise to vast Influence – Their Tactics – Mingle in all Circles – Labour to Undermine the Influence of Protestant Ministers – Extraordinary Methods of doing this – Mob Violence – Churches, etc., Burned – Graveyards Violated – The Jesuits in the Saloons of the Great – Their Schools and Method of Teaching – They Dwarf the National Mind – They Extinguish Literature – Testimony of a Popish Writer – Reign of Vladislav – John Casimir, a Jesuit, ascends the Throne – Political Calamities-Revolt of the Cossacks – Invasion of the Russians and Swedes – Continued Decline of Protestantism and Oppression of Protestants – Exhaustion and Ruin of Poland – Causes which contributed along with the Jesuits to the Overthrow of Protestantism in Poland.

Chapter 7 BOHEMIA – ENTRANCE OF REFORMATION.
Darkness Concealing Bohemian Martyrs – John Huss – First Preachers of the Reformed Doctrine in Bohemia – False Brethren – Zahera – Passek – They Excite to Persecutions – Martyrs-Nicolas Wrzetenarz-The Hostess Clara – Martha von Porzicz – The Potter and Girdler – Fate of the Persecutors – Ferdinand I. Invades Bohemia – Persecutions and Emigrations – Flight of the Pastors – John Augusta, etc. – A Heroic Sufferer – The Jesuits brought into Bohemia – Maximilian II. – Persecution Stopped – Bohemian Confession – Rudolph – The Majestats-Brief – Full Liberty given to the Protestants.

Chapter 8 OVERTHROW OF PROTESTANTISM IN BOHEMIA.
Protestantism Flourishes – Constitution of Bohemian. Church – Its Government – Concord between Romanists and Protestants – Temple of Janus Shut – Joy of Bohemia – Matthias Emperor – Election of Ferdinand II. as King of Bohemia – Reaction – Intrigues and Insults – Council-chamber – Three Councillors Thrown out at the Window – Ferdinand II. elected Emperor – War – Battle of the White Hill – Defeat of the Protestants – Atrocities – Amnesty – Apprehension of Nobles and Senators – Their Frightful Sentences -Their Behaviour on the Scaffold – Their Deaths.

Chapter 9 AN ARMY OF MARTYRS.
Count Schlik – His Cruel Sentence – The Baron of Budowa – His Last Hours – Argues with the Jesuits – His Execution – Christopher Harant – His Travels – His Death – Baron Kaplirz – His Dream – Attires himself for the Scaffold – Procopius Dworschezky – His Martyrdom – Otto Losz – His Sleep and Execution – Dionysius Czernin – His Behaviour on the Scaffold – Kochan – Steffek – Jessenius – His Learning – His Interview with the Jesuits – Cruel Death – Khobr – Schulz – Kutnauer – His great Courage – His Death – Talents and Rank of these Martyrs – Their Execution the Obsequies of their Country.

Chapter 10 SUPPRESSION OF PROTESTANTISH IN BOHEHIA.
Policy of Ferdinand II – Murder of Ministers by the Troops – New Plan of Persecution – Kindness and its Effects – Expulsion of Anabaptists from Moravia – The Pastors Banished – Sorrowful Partings – Exile of Pastors of Kuttenberg – The Lutherans "Graciously Dismissed" – The Churches Razed – The New Clergy – Purification of the Churches – The Schoolmasters Banished – Bibles and Religious Books Burned – Spanish Jesuits and Lichtenstein's Dragoons – Emigration of the Nobles – Reign of Terror in the Towns – Oppressive Edicts – Ransom-Money – Unprotestantizing of Villages and Rural Parts – Protestantism Trampled out – Bohemia a Desert – Testimony of a Popish Writer.

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Chapter 1	RISE AND SPREAD OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND. The "Catholic Restoration " – First Introduction of Christianity into Poland – Influence of Wicliffe and Huss – Luther – The Light Shines on Dantzic – The Ex-Monk Knade – Rashness of the Dantzic Reformers – The Movement thrown back – Entrance of Protestantism into Thorn and other Towns – Cracow – Secret Society, and Queen Bona Sforza – Efforts of Romish Synods to Arrest the Truth – Entrance of Bohemian Protestants into Poland – Their great Missionary Success – Students leave Cracow: go to Protestant Universities – Attempt at Coercive Measures – They Fail – Cardinal Hosius – A Martyr – The Priests in Conflict with the Nobles – National Diet of 1552 – Auguries – Abolition of the Temporal Jurisdiction of the Bishops.
Chapter 2	JOHN ALASCO, AND REFORMATION OF EAST FRIESLAND. No One Leader – Many Secondary Ones – King Sigismund Augustus – His Character – Favourably Disposed to Protestantism – His Vacillations – Project of National Reforming Synod – Opposed by the Roman Clergy – John Alasco – Education – Goes to Louvain – Visits Zwingle – His Stay with Erasmus – Recalled to Poland – Purges himself from Suspicion of Heresy – Proffered Dignities – He Severs himself from the Roman Church – Leaves Poland – Goes to East Friesland – Begins its Reformation – Difficulties – Triumph of Alasco – Goes to England – Friendship with Cranmer – Becomes Superintendent of the Foreign Church in London – Retires to Denmark on Death of Edward VI. – Persecutions and Wanderings – Returns to Poland – His Work there – Prince Radziwill – His Attempts to Reform Poland – His Dying Charge to his Son – His Prophetic Words to Sigismund Augustus.
Chapter 3	ACME OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND. Arts of the Pope's Legate-Popish Synod – Judicial Murder – A Miracle – The King asks the Pope to Reform the Church – Diet of 1563 – National Synod craved – Defeated by the Papal Legate – His Representations to the King – The King Gained over – Project of a Religious Union – Conference of the Protestants – Union of Sandomir – Its Basis – The Eucharistic Doctrine of the Polish Protestant Church – Acme of Protestantism in Poland.
Chapter 4	ORGANISATION OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF POLAND. Several Church Organisations in Poland – Causes – Church Government in Poland a Modified Episcopacy – The Superintendent – His Powers – The Senior, etc. – The Civil Senior – The Synod the Supreme Authority – Local and Provincial Synods – General Convocation-Two Defects in this Organisation – Death of Sigismund Augustus – Who shall Succeed him? – Coligny proposes the Election of a French Prince – Montluc sent as Ambassador to Poland – Duke of Anjou Elected – Pledges – Attempted Treacheries – Coronation – Henry Attempts to Evade the Oath – Firmness of the Polish Protestants – The King's Unpopularity and Flight.
Chapter 5	TURNING OF THE TIDE OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND. Stephen Bathory Elected to the Throne – His Midnight Interview – Abandons Protestantism, and becomes a Romanist – Takes the Jesuits under his Patronage – Builds and Endows Colleges for them – Roman Synod of Piotrkow – Subtle Policy of the Bishops for Recovering their Temporal Jurisdiction – Temporal Ends gained by Spiritual Sanctions – Spiritual Terrors versus Temporal Punishments – Begun Decadence of Poland – Last Successes of its Arms – Death of King Stephen – Sigismund III. Succeeds – " The King of the Jesuits."
Chapter 6	THE JESUITS ENTER POLAND – DESTRUCTION OF ITS PROTESTANTISM. Cardinal Hosius – His Acquirements – Prodigious Activity – Brings the Jesuits into Poland – They rise to vast Influence – Their Tactics – Mingle in all Circles – Labour to Undermine the Influence of Protestant Ministers – Extraordinary Methods of doing this – Mob Violence – Churches, etc., Burned – Graveyards Violated – The Jesuits in the Saloons of the Great – Their Schools and Method of Teaching – They Dwarf the National Mind – They Extinguish Literature – Testimony of a Popish Writer – Reign of Vladislav – John Casimir, a Jesuit, ascends the Throne – Political Calamities-Revolt of the Cossacks – Invasion of the Russians and Swedes – Continued Decline of Protestantism and Oppression of Protestants – Exhaustion and Ruin of Poland – Causes which contributed along with the Jesuits to the Overthrow of Protestantism in Poland.
Chapter 7	BOHEMIA – ENTRANCE OF REFORMATION. Darkness Concealing Bohemian Martyrs – John Huss – First Preachers of the Reformed Doctrine in Bohemia – False Brethren – Zahera – Passek – They Excite to Persecutions – Martyrs-Nicolas Wrzetenarz-The Hostess Clara – Martha von Porzicz – The Potter and Girdler – Fate of the Persecutors – Ferdinand I. Invades Bohemia – Persecutions and Emigrations – Flight of the Pastors – John Augusta, etc. – A Heroic Sufferer – The Jesuits brought into Bohemia – Maximilian II. – Persecution Stopped – Bohemian Confession – Rudolph – The Majestats-Brief – Full Liberty given to the Protestants.
Chapter 8	OVERTHROW OF PROTESTANTISM IN BOHEMIA. Protestantism Flourishes – Constitution of Bohemian. Church – Its Government – Concord between Romanists and Protestants – Temple of Janus Shut – Joy of Bohemia – Matthias Emperor – Election of Ferdinand II. as King of Bohemia – Reaction – Intrigues and Insults – Council-chamber – Three Councillors Thrown out at the Window – Ferdinand II. elected Emperor – War – Battle of the White Hill – Defeat of the Protestants – Atrocities – Amnesty – Apprehension of Nobles and Senators – Their Frightful Sentences -Their Behaviour on the Scaffold – Their Deaths.
Chapter 9	AN ARMY OF MARTYRS. Count Schlik – His Cruel Sentence – The Baron of Budowa – His Last Hours – Argues with the Jesuits – His Execution – Christopher Harant – His Travels – His Death – Baron Kaplirz – His Dream – Attires himself for the Scaffold – Procopius Dworschezky – His Martyrdom – Otto Losz – His Sleep and Execution – Dionysius Czernin – His Behaviour on the Scaffold – Kochan – Steffek – Jessenius – His Learning – His Interview with the Jesuits – Cruel Death – Khobr – Schulz – Kutnauer – His great Courage – His Death – Talents and Rank of these Martyrs – Their Execution the Obsequies of their Country.
Chapter 10	SUPPRESSION OF PROTESTANTISH IN BOHEHIA. Policy of Ferdinand II – Murder of Ministers by the Troops – New Plan of Persecution – Kindness and its Effects – Expulsion of Anabaptists from Moravia – The Pastors Banished – Sorrowful Partings – Exile of Pastors of Kuttenberg – The Lutherans "Graciously Dismissed" – The Churches Razed – The New Clergy – Purification of the Churches – The Schoolmasters Banished – Bibles and Religious Books Burned – Spanish Jesuits and Lichtenstein's Dragoons – Emigration of the Nobles – Reign of Terror in the Towns – Oppressive Edicts – Ransom-Money – Unprotestantizing of Villages and Rural Parts – Protestantism Trampled out – Bohemia a Desert – Testimony of a Popish Writer.