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PROTESTANTISM IN HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA.

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Chapter 1	PLANTING OF PROTESTANTISM Early History of Hungary – Entrance of Protestantism – Its Rapid Diffusion – Causes – First Preachers – Henkel and Queen Mary of Hungary – Persecuting Edicts – The Turk Appears – John Zapolya – Louis II – Count Pemflinger – Battle of Mohacz – Slaughter of King and Nobility – Protestantism Progresses – Zapolya and Ferdinand Contest the Sovereignty – Matthias Devay – His Zeal and Success as a Reformer – Imprisoned – The Blacksmith – Count Nadasdy – His Efforts for the Reform of Hungary – Discussion before Ferdinand I – Defeat and Wrath of the Bishops – The King Protects Devay – Character of Ferdinand I.
Chapter 2	PROTESTANTISM FLOURISHES IN HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA. Characteristic of the Reformation in Hungary, its Silence and Steadiness – Edition of the New Testament in Hungarian – Rivalship between Zapolya and Ferdinand favorable to Protestantism – Death of Zapolya – His Son proclaimed King – The Turk Returns – He Protects Protestantism – Progress of Reformation – Conflicts between the Lutherans and the Calvinists – Synod of Erdoed – Its Statement of Doctrines – The Confession of the Five Cities – Formation of the Helvetian and Lutheran Churches – The Diet, by a Majority of Votes, declares for the Reformation – The Preacher Szegedin – Count Petrovich – Reforms – Stephen Losonczy – The Mussulman again Rescues Protestantism – Grants Toleration – Flourishing State of Protestantism in Transylvania and Hungary.
Chapter 3	FERDINAND II AND THE ERA OF PERSECUTION. The Reformation of Hungary not Perfected – Defects – Intestine War – "Formula of Concord" – The Jesuits – Their Show of Humility – Come to Tyrnau – Settle in Raab – Ferdinand II Educated by the Jesuits – His Devotion to Mary – His Vow – His Mission – A Century of Protestantism – Tragedies – Ferdinand II hopes to Extinguish Protestantism – Stephen Bethlen – Diet of Neusohl – Decrees Toleration – War between Bethlen and Ferdinand II – Bethlen Declines the Crown of Hungary – Renews the War – Peace – Bethlen's Sudden Death – Plan for Extirpating Protestantism – Its Execution Postponed – Ferdinand's Death.
Chapter 4	LEOPOLD I. AND THE JESUITS. Ferdinand III – Persecution – The Pastor of Neustadt – Insurrection of Rakotzy – Peace of Linz – Leopold I – His Training – Devotion to the Jesuits – The Golden Age of the Jesuits – Plan of Persecution begins to be Acted on – Hungary Occupied by Austrian Soldiers – Prince Lobkowitz – Bishop Szeleptsenyi – Two Monsters – Diet of Presburg – Petition of the Protestants – Their Complaints – Robbed of their Churches and Schools – Their Pastors and Schoolmasters Banished – Enforced Perversion of the Inhabitants – Count Francis Nadasdy – A Message from the Fire – Protestants Forbidden the Rights of Citizenship – Their Petitions to the King Neglected.
Chapter 5	BANISHMENT OF PASTORS AND DESOLATION OF THE CHURCH OF HUNGARY. Popish Nobles demand Withdrawal of the Foreign Troops – Refusal of the King-Projected Insurrection – Their Message to the Vizier – Their Plot Discovered – Mysterious Deaths of Vesselenyi and Zriny – Attempt to Poison the King – The Alchemist Borri – Introduced to the King – Effects his Cure – Insurrection Suppressed – New Storm on Protestants – Raid of Szeleptsenyi – Destruction of Churches, etc. – Martyrdom of Drabicius -Abolition of the Ancient Charters – Banishment of the Pastors – Thirty-three Ministers Tried, and Resign their Charges – Four Hundred Ministers Condemned – Resolved to Kill, not their Bodies, but their Characters – Their Treatment in Prison – Banishment to the Galleys – Sufferings on their Journey – Efforts for their Release – Delivered from the Galleys by Admiral de Ruyter – Desolation of Hungarian Church.

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