WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HUNGARIAN PURITANS?
Until the middle of the sixteenth century, the Reformation conquered all the territories of historical Hungary and rolled back Roman Catholicism to a tiny minority. But this great conquest that lasted for a quarter of a century was mostly outward. It was not accompanied by a spiritual revival. The feudalistic system had said: Cuius regio eius religio (the region has the rulers religion). The ignorance of the middle class and a lack of religious consciousness among many nobles prevented the development of a biblical church life. The great need to advance the Reformation and to organize living and truly Reformed Hungarian churches became evident, especially to those Reformed Hungarian young men who visited England and the Netherlands and saw for themselves congregations which embraced the great movement of revival called Puritanism. In February 1638, when the famous Scottish National Covenant was being signed in Edinburgh, Tolnai Dali Jnos and nine other zealous Hungarian theologians in
