This edition is the first attempt to translate into modern Ukrainian the works of the polemic writer of the late XVI - early XVII centuries, a fighter against the enslavement of his native land, an implacable opponent of Catholic expansion in Ukraine Ivan Vishensky. The book contains the entire creative heritage of the polemicist, which has survived to our time. The publication will benefit teachers, secondary school students and students studying the work of I. Vishensky, as well as a wide range of readers who are interested in the history of literature and socio-political thought in Ukraine in those turbulent times.