History of the Protestant Church in Hungary; From the Beginning of the Reformation to 1850; With Special Reference to Transylvania

by Jnos Gyrgy Bauhofer

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. STATE OK HUNGARY UNDER RULERS OF DIFFERENT HOUSES, FROM 1801 TO 1540. ? THE HUSSITES. John Hoss. ? His Death. ?Jerome of Prague. ? His Death. ? Doctrines of the Hussites. ? Spread and Persecution of these Doctrines in Bohemia, Hungary, and Transylvania. Shortly after the death of Andrew III., we find the Wai- denses in very considerable numbers in Hungary. Formed into separate congregations, and laboring with great zeal for the spread of their doctrines, they caused the Church of Rome much anxiety. About the year 1315, we find the numbers of this people enlightened by the Word of God ? and, even as their enemies confess, maintaining a high standard of morality in Bohemia, Austria, and the neighboring lands ? amounting to eighty thousand. Rome, therefore, did her utmost to have them suppressed. No term of disgrace was too bad, no crime too great, to impute to them. They were represented as maintaining the most terrible heresies, though their Catechism, published in 1100, and their Confession of Faith, in 1120, completely refuted the calumny. It was in Austria that the influence of Rome was first felt. In Vienna some were publicly led to the stake, and among these we find mention made of Simeon Scaliger, a Hungarian, who is represented as an apostle and angel of the sect, and who nobly witnessed for the truth in a martyr's death.f Joannes Honert in Dissert. Hist Theol. de Fid. Religioneque Vet. Vald., pp. 38, 62,62. t Catal. Testium Verit., p. 756. In Hungary (he priests of Rome were less successful in gaining over the civil power to serve their purposes. This land, having been at all times more inclined towards the Greek than the Latin Church, afforded the Waldenses more protection, and furnished the priests with fewer blinded instruments for carrying..

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First published October 14, 2010