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

Therefore Your Princely Serenity original: E. F. Durchl., abbreviation for Euer Fürstlichen Durchlaucht.—while preserving holy Justice, preserving the office of your Serene Dignity, or preserving your conscience original: conscientia—cannot permit different faiths.

But if Your Princely Serenity wishes to examine the persons who desire a new faith—namely, who they are and how they have been labeled by Christ and His teachers—then I am in most obedient hope that Your Princely Serenity would be much less inclined to consent to their request. For Christ calls them heathens; Saint John does not want one to greet them; the holy Apostle Paul wants one to separate oneself from them entirely. Saint Cyprian says: "He is not a Christian who is not in the Church of Christ." original Latin: Christianus non est, qui in Ecclesia Christi non est. Tertullian: "For those who are heretics cannot be Christians." original Latin: Qui enim Hæretici sunt, Christiani esse non possunt. Saint Jerome: "One must speak of a heretic as if of a pagan." original Latin: De hæretico tanquam de gentili loquendum est. The Church calls Arius A 4th-century priest whose teachings on the nature of Christ were declared heretical by the Council of Nicaea. an atheist. Likewise, Saint Athanasius and Jerome call Eunomius A leader of an extreme Arian sect in the 4th century. the same. Chrysostom makes this argument: "He is an Arian, therefore he is a devil." original Latin: Arrianus est, Ergò Diabolus est. And he concludes: "The unclean spirit departs from the pagans when they become Christians; but it returns when Christians become heretics, and then their last state is worse than their first. For no one doubts that heretics are worse than pagans; for pagans blaspheme God through ignorance, but heretics knowingly condemn the truth." original Latin: Spiritus immundus à gentilibus recedit...

Since Your Princely Serenity wishes to administer Justice original: Justiciam as you are obligated to do, you will also give no liberty to their will to place such unbelievers among the children of God, and to introduce their paganism original: Heidenthumb and unbelief against the people of God, or