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

Therefore, Your Princely Serenity original: E. F. Durchl. (Euer Fürstlichen Durchlaucht), a formal address for a high-ranking noble.—preserving holy Justice original: salva sancta Justicia, preserving the duty of Your Serene Dignity original: salvo officio ser. Dign. V., and preserving your conscience original: salva conscientia—cannot allow different faiths.

But now, 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 the most humble hope that Your Princely Serenity would be far less inclined to grant their request. For Christ calls them heathens; the holy Apostle John does not want them to be greeted; the holy Apostle Paul wants one to separate oneself from them entirely. Saint Cyprian Thascius Cyprianus (c. 210–258 AD), a bishop of Carthage and important early Christian writer. says: He is not a Christian who is not in the Church of Christ. original: "Christianus non est, qui in Ecclesia Christi non est." Tertullian: An early Christian author from Carthage (c. 155–220 AD). For those who are heretics cannot be Christians. original: "Qui enim Hæretici sunt, Christiani esse non possunt." Saint Jerome: One must speak of a heretic as one does of a pagan. original: "De hæretico tanquam de gentili loquendum est." The Church calls Arius Arius (256–336 AD), whose teachings regarding the nature of the Trinity were declared heretical at the Council of Nicaea. an atheist. Likewise, Saint Athanasius and Jerome call Eunomius Eunomius of Cyzicus (died c. 393 AD), a leader of an extreme Arian sect. [an atheist]. Chrysostom John Chrysostom (c. 347–407 AD), Archbishop of Constantinople, known for his eloquent preaching. makes this argument: He is an Arian, therefore he is a Devil. original: "Arrianus est, Ergo 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 final state is worse than the first. For no one doubts that heretics are worse than pagans; for pagans blaspheme God through ignorance, but heretics condemn the truth while knowing it. original: "Spiritus immundus à gentilibus recedit, cùm fiunt Christiani: sed redit, cùm ex Christianis fiunt hæretici, & tùm novissima eorum pejora prioribus. Nam hæreticos pejores esse gentilibus nemo dubitat, gentiles enim per ignorantiam Deum blasphemant, Hæretici autem scientes damnant veritatem."

Since Your Princely Serenity now wishes to administer Justice as you are obligated to do, you will also give no freedom to their will to place such unbelievers among the children of God and to introduce their heathenry and unbelief against the people of God, or