The Glöselian Duel: Two Opposing Opinions on Religious Freedom for the Hungarian Estates

...were allowed to be wonderfully exalted, preserved, and protected from their enemies, and were also endowed with every blessing and benediction from God.

Now, as concerns the present point, it is regarding the highest matter on Earth, namely concerning Faith original: de Fide, without which no person can come to God or be saved. Therefore, this point is of such a nature that it does not take its origin from what is human or earthly, or from men, but is a gift of God, through which man grasps God and the Faith, which is unsearchable. For this reason, God has sent His prophets, apostles, evangelists, and teachers, to whom He entrusted this mystery, so that we might learn such Faith from them. Thus, this subject matter original: materia is subject to the holy universal Church alone—which is a pillar of truth—and from her, as often as doubts arise in such things, guidance, instruction, and answers must be taken; also, her decision and resolution In this context, Resolution refers to a formal, binding determination on a point of doctrine. must be followed, on pain of losing eternal salvation.

But as God is only one God, and thus has only one Bride—the Church—so there is only one Faith which fully grasps this, just as our confession in the twelve articles of the Faith A reference to the Apostles' Creed. demonstrates. Now, whatever is outside of this God, His Church, and this Faith, is—according to the teaching of Christ and His apostles—wrong, idolatrous, unbelieving, and damnable; and all those who act contrary to these teachings are held to be heathens and public sinners. And for this very reason, all theologians original: Theologi agree unanimously on this: that God Himself, the highest in Heaven and on Earth, from whom our holy Faith indeed comes...