Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga: On The Anabaptists

The major sin and most terrible injustice in this kingdom is blasphemy towards the Christian God, one in the Holy Trinity, which takes place and is allowed to grow.

Whoever wants, not only in speech but also in writing and printing, can blaspheme without fear against our Almighty God in the Trinity, brought to us by the light of the holy gospel and the Christian faith that was revealed to us from heaven.

The sect of anabaptists, (and here) or rather pagans, is spreading everywhere. Especially in Lithuania, in the Lublin region, in Great and Little Poland, in Prussia, they blaspheme the Christian God in the Holy Trinity. And they disseminate this blasphemy as they wish, without any ban or prohibition. And the whole kingdom is stained by such consent, leading it into sin and God's vengeance.
It was a sin of Achan alone that stood in the way of a victory for the whole army, and God did not bless them over their enemies until the sin was punished.

The many people who blaspheme God will bring a much greater vengeance of the Lord on those who do not restrain them and who do not say like Phinehas and his companions to the Reubenites and the Gadites: "You have turned away today from the Lord, He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel tomorrow."

That means against those who would remain silent and let you do this. Isaiah threatens that the whole kingdom will fall on account of an injustice done to God and blasphemy to His name. He says: "Woe to the sinful nation, people laden with iniquity. They have forsaken the Lord, despised the Holy One of Israel."And what will happen? "Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land. You will be like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a field, like a besieged city."

And what is said about the blasphemy against God, one in the Holy Trinity, and about anabaptists, is understood about all heretics, who – as in the Revelation – blaspheme God's sanctuary, that is His holy Church and His holy servants who dwell in heaven.

As the kingdom does not provide any appropriate resistance to them, legal and secular, it will not escape God's punishment. For not only the one who is practicing such things, but also the one who allows others to practice them – says the apostle – deserves to die. The one who keeps silent, and does nothing, when he should do what he can, allows for and takes part in someone else's sin

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Read Fr. Piotr Skarga's entire sermon,
SERMONS TO THE DIET Eighth Sermon: On the Sixth Illness of the Commonwealth Which Comes From Open Sins and Lack of Punishment for Them (here)

Piotr Skarga (February 2, 1536 [1] – September 27, 1612 [2]; actual name: Piotr Powęski; referred to in some English sources as Peter Skarga) was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-reformation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was called the "Polish Bossuet" due to his oratorical abilities.