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

[...]prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. original Latin: phetam, docere & seducere servos meos, fornicari, & manducare de idolothytis. I obediently present to Your Princely Serenity original: E. F. Durchl. (Euer Fürstlichen Durchlaucht) the entire Greek Empire The Byzantine Empire as an example; for this reason alone—because the Greek Emperors permitted false and varied opinions—they fell into the power of the Turk The Ottoman Empire. In the same way, specifically regarding Valentinian the Younger, who, out of heartfelt affection and respect for his own mother Justina, permitted the Arian heresy A major early Christian heresy that denied the full divinity of Christ just for her and her followers, the same occurred, and he was likewise cast out from his realm. Similarly, the examples of Constantius, Julian Julian the Apostate, the last pagan Roman Emperor, and other Christian Emperors original: Käy. (Kaiser) demonstrate more of the same: those who thus connived turned a blind eye, tolerated [heresy], and thereby hoped to maintain political peace and preserve their lands and people, reached such an end; namely, that they perished shamefully and were cast out from their kingdoms.

Alas, what has happened in the Roman Empire and all those lands where, as soon as these things are heard, men have placed political peace before the heavenly and divine, and have turned from the truth of the faith to human discourse and opinions. The love for God in their hearts has grown cold, while the fear, respect, and favor of men has broken forth. Through un-Christian, unacceptable, and irresponsible preservation and acquisition of lands and people, along with other dignities titles or high offices, they have prioritized temporal gain and contentment over the eternal; they have loved the world and their own souls here more than God. They have turned to the Peace of Passau original: Passawischen Verträgen — The 1552 treaty that granted some legal protections to Lutherans in the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian concessions, and the commissions established within the Roman Empire regarding these matters—all aimed at how true and false religion, Christ and Belial A biblical name for the devil, used here to contrast light and darkness, [might be joined] to-