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

...makers in the things of God: [Those] saying "peace, peace," and there is no peace original Latin: Dicentis pax, pax, & non est pax; see Jeremiah 6:14. The author is accusing the advisors of offering a false sense of security., and in another place he gives this reason: For there is no peace for the wicked, says the Lord original Latin: Non enim est pax impiis, dicit Dominus; see Isaiah 48:22.. Your Princely Serenity original abbreviation: E. Fürstl. Durchl. (Euer Fürstlichen Durchlaucht) need only search the histories to see where various heresies were permitted, to find if any peace remained, and whether the desertion of true religion—which the holy teachers entitle a rebellion against God original Latin: Rebellio contra Deum—did not always immediately shatter political peace and place a political religion in its stead. Who is this who discourses original: discurriret so certainly about future matters? Claiming that if one clings to God and trusts in Him alone, the ruin of the lands must necessarily follow; but if one builds everything upon human reason and asks nothing of God, the land and people shall be preserved? Is such advice grounded in God and His Word, in reason, or in any histories, and is it not rather founded upon the very opposite? It is indeed no less true that in the things of God, ruin often appears imminent outwardly, and God permits this to test our trust in Him; yet, despite this, the righteous are never forsaken. Even if everything occurred exactly as the politicians discourse, there would still remain with Your Princely Serenity a good conscience and thus eternal life; for it is more advisable to lose the whole world than to suffer harm to the soul.

Regarding the fact that finally the Hungarian rebels desire that three kinds of faith Likely referring to the recognition of Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism, a major point of contention in the Hungarian estates. be permitted to them, and that the Hungarian bishops and councilors so freely advise this: I wish to treat this politically, showing that Your Princely Serenity should have grave political reservations about consenting to such a demand.