These Protestant presses were kept busy, printing pamphlets, books, and the Scriptures or portions thereof. This literary output consisted partly of translations and partly of original writings. A good deal of it was polemical, making a severe attack on Catholicism. What helped to stimulate this publishing activity was the fact that by a statute of 1539 the royal edicts of 1520 and 1523, forbidding the dissemination of heretical literature, were revoked, and freedom of the press was established in Poland.[218] From the presses of Königsberg John Seklucjan fairly flooded Poland with religious literature between the years 1544 and 1559. Among his publications deserving mention there were: A Confession of Christian Faith, published in 1544, Luther’s larger and shorter catechism and a collection of hymns (1547), a Polish translation of the New Testament, effected by Stanislaus Murzynowski and published in 1550-1553, and Seklucjan’s volume of homilies (1556).[219] Here, too, appeared in 1552 Małecki’s translation of the New Testament.[220] This Małecki is the same person whom we met before in Cracow and at Pułtusk as printer-publisher under the name of John of Sącz. Following Seklucjan’s example, Scharffenberg published in Cracow in 1561 John Leopolita’s translation of the Bible, known as the Leopolitan Bible. The Calvinistic or Radziwill’s Bible, as we have already noted, appeared at Brześć-Litewski in 1563, the Arian or Budny’s Bible at Nieśwież in 1572, and the Catholic or Wujek’s Bible in 1599.[221] Among the Protestant publications of this time deserving mention were also two significant volumes of homilies, Nicholas Rey’s published in 1557, and Gregory’s of Żarnowiec, which appeared in 1572-1580.[222] Both of these works have survived in various editions the vicissitudes of time to the present day, and are still in use in Protestant homes of Poland. The Arians, too, made a large and credible contribution to Polish religious literature, consisting of translations of the works of Stankar, Lismanini, Ochino, and Socino, and of original writings of their leading representatives. Among the leading Arian writers of the sixteenth century were Martin Krowicki, Gregory Paul or Pauli, Peter of Goniądz, Simon Budny, John Niemojewski, and Martin Czechowic. Czechowic had studied at Poznań and Leipzig (1554), and was the most distinguished of the Arian writers. His most important works were published between the years 1575 and 1583, his Racovian Catechism appearing in 1575, his translation of the New Testament in 1577, and the Epistomium, a polemical work, in 1583.[223]