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

pertaining to [their] religion / they would not permit / just as in all those places not even a tiny spark of the Catholic religion remains.

Why then should our Catholic religion / which is all beautiful, and has no stain original: quæ tota pulchra eſt, & maculam non habet — a reference to the Song of Solomon 4:7, traditionally applied to the purity of the Church / be the only one / which must tolerate all scabs and uncleanness alongside it / and Your Princely Serenity's original: E. Fürſtl. Durchl. (Euer Fürstlichen Durchlaucht) conscience be less and of worse standing / than those of such non-Catholics. This point is indeed so clear / that it is even incorporated into Nature itself / because the heathens, by the light of Nature, would not permit any other gods against those they had chosen for themselves / and held to be right / and would rather die for them / and they considered those who opposed their gods to be their greatest personal enemies in the world / and firmly believed / that no death could be more praiseworthy / through which one might become a god / than that undertaken for the sake of the gods / as the histories of the heathens demonstrate.

Well do I remember / that the Hungarian bishops and councilors on August 7th in the year 1601 / gave Your Princely Serenity the following legal opinion original: Gutachten — formal advisory counsel in matters of religion / suggesting that they might answer the rebels likely referring to the Protestant estates in Hungary who were demanding religious freedom in this manner:

Regarding the first article, therefore, it has its answer above: no one has been disturbed concerning religion as of yet, and His Majesty’s proposal was that no one should be disturbed in it. original Latin: Quantum igitur ad primum articulum ſpectat, habet ſuum reſponſum ſuperius, nullum de religione turbatum ſicut hactenus, & propoſitio ſuæ Majeſtatis, ne vllus in ea turbetur, fuit.

But whether this counsel is godly / Christian and responsible / as well as good Catholic / [consistent with] the Catholic faith / or indeed even reason itself