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221 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 185.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuit Possevinus, by a peace which stripped Poland of the advantages she was entitled to expect from her victories. This was the last gleam of military …
222 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 185.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Jesuits,” and so far was he from being ashamed of the title, that he gloried in it, and strove to prove himself worthy of it. He surrounded himself with Jesuit councillors …
223 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 185 (James Aitken Wylie)
Chapter 6: The Jesuits enter Poland-Destruction of its Protestantism
224 History of Protestantism, vol. 3
… the Jesuits into Poland—They rise to vast Influence—Their Tactics—Mingle in all Circles—Labour to Undermine the Influence of Protestant Ministers—Extraordinary …
225 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 185.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
The Jesuits had been introduced into Poland, and the turning of the Protestant tide, and the begun decadence of the nation’s political power, which was almost …
226 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 186.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits in Poland, to be followed by the iron age to the people, did not begin until the bigoted Sigismund III. mounted the throne. The favors of Stephen Bathory …
227 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 188.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… against Jesuit calumny. Volanus, whose ninety years bore witness to his abstemious life, they called a drunkard. Sdrowski, who had incurred their anger by …
228 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 188.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits, but all the Protestant churches and schools which their father had built on his estates were made over to the Church of Rome. The example of the …
229 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 188.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits to be made their tool. Mob violence is commonly the first form that persecution assumes. It was so in Poland. The caves whence these popular tempests …
230 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 188.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits were smiting the Protestant ministers and members with the arm of the mob, they were bowing the knee in adulation and flattery before the Protestant …
231 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 189.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits operated in Poland was the school. They had among them a few men of good talent and great erudition. At the beginning they were at pains to teach …
232 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 189.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits. The half-century during which the Protestant influence was the predominating one was “the Augustan age of Polish literature;” the half-century …
233 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 189.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Spanish Jesuit who compiled a grammar which the Jesuits used in the schools of Poland. Dialogue of a Landowner with a Parish Priest. The work, published about …
234 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 190.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits had become firmly rooted in Poland, died in 1632, and was succeeded by his eldest son Vladislav IV. Vladislav hated the disciples of Loyola as much …
235 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 190.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… a Jesuit. The heart of the Jesuit remained within him, though his vow to the order had been dissolved. Nevertheless, it is but justice to say that Casimir was …
236 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 191.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits would have been driven out, that the Protestant spirit would have been reinvigorated, and that Poland, built up into a powerful kingdom, would …
237 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 191.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits and the Roman hierarchy had grown. Religious equality was still the law of Poland, and each new sovereign swore, at his coronation, to maintain …
238 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 192.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits, other causes co-operated, though ill a less degree. The Protestant body in Poland, from the first, was parted into three Confessions: the Genevan …
239 History of Protestantism, vol. 3
… —The Jesuits brought into Bohemia—Maximilian II—Persecution Stopped—Bohemian Confession—Rudolph—The Majestats-Brief—Full Liberty given to the Protestants …
240 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 197.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Jesuits, the Catholic religion would have been suppressed in Bohemia.” The Jesuits grew powerful in Prague. They eschewed public disputations; they affected …