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

...purchased, while our fatherland has been so miserably destroyed original: deftruirt; the non-Catholic princes have deliberated, but because they believed this happened for the sake of religion, they have refused all help. With these, our Austrian non-Catholic faction corresponds, has suspended all their aid, and made it conditional original: conditionirt upon such heresies, placing all hope for improvement upon the legal admission of their religion. Therefore, it can be seen in writings how craftily the non-Catholic colonels original: Obersten — high-ranking military commanders, when they were supposed to march against the rebels, reported on account of religion that a suspicion was taken regarding such an expedition, protested, and proposed all sorts of conditions.

What sensible person now—whether clerical original: Geistlich or secular original: Politiſch — referring to civil authorities or the state—who is united with God in one holy Catholic faith and possesses a conscience and reason, could advise Your Princely Serenity original: Ew. Fürstl. Durchl. (Euer Fürstlichen Durchlaucht), given such a state of affairs, to forfeit and abandon your temporal and eternal welfare, as well as your good name, for the sake of these insane rebels' unjust demands? And to provide such people—who cannot be relied upon and who are the certain and worst enemies of yourself and the religion—with new privileges original: Privilegiis — legal rights or exemptions often granted to estates or religious groups, whereby they would grow stronger daily? Thus, what has hitherto been done by them in fact original Latin: de facto against all equity could now be undertaken by them with Your Princely Serenity's consent.

But because this present point is certain from God and His law, as well as from the holy universal Christian Church, and therefore among true Christians