The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Vol.1-5). Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
"Quarè beatissime Pater, prostratum me pedibus tuæ Beatitudinis offero, cum omnibus quæ sum et habeo; vivifica, occide voca, revoca, approba, reproba, ut placuerit. Vocem tuam, vocem Christi in te præsidentis et loquentis agnoscam; si mortem merui, mori non recusabo." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 121.)
488. His Solutions.
489. "Qui pauper est nihil timet, nihil potest perdere." (Ibid., p. 118.)
490. Luth. Op. (W.) xv, p. 339.
491. "Nec profana judicia sequens quæ tenera initia omnium mutationum celerrime opprimi jubent." (Melanc. Vita Luth.)
492. "Deo cessit, et ea quæ vera esse judicavit, deleri non voluit." (Ibid.)
493. "Rarescebant manus largentium." (Cochlœus, 7.) The hands of contributors grew few.
494. "Luthero autem contra augebatur auctoritas, favor, fides existimatio, fama; quod tam liber acerque videbatur veritatis assertor." (Ibid.) On the contrary, Luther's authority, influence, credit, reputation, and fame, increased, because he seemed so free and bold an assertor of the truth.
495. Schröck, K. Gesch. n. d. R. i, p. 156.
496. "Defensores et patrones etiam potentes quos dictus frater consecutus est." (Raynald, ad an. 1518.)
497. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 169.
498. "Uterus Rebecca est; parvulos in eo collidi necesse est, etiam usque ad periculum matris." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 138.)
499. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 173.
500. Ibid. i, 183, 184; xvii, 171, 172.
501. "Dictum Lutherum hæreticum per prædictum auditorem jàm declaratum." (Breve Leonis X ad Thomam.)
502. "Brachio cogas atque compellas, et eo in potestate tua redacto cum sub fideli custodia retineas, ut coram nobis sistatur." (Ibid.)
503. "Infamiæ et inhabilitatis ad omnes actus legitimos ecclesiasticæ sepulturæ, privationis quoque feudorum." (Breve Leonis X ad Thomam.)
504. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 176.
505. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 173.
506. "Almosen geben armt nicht, etc. Wer mehr will verzehren, etc. (Müller's Reliquien.)
507. "Dilixit me ut filium, et ego eum ut patrem; et conveniemus, spero, in vita æterna." (Melancth. Explicat. Evang.)
508. "Quiescere non poterat, sed quærebat ubique aliquem cum quo de auditis disputaret." (Camerarius, Vita Melancth. p. 7.)
509. Camerar. Vita Philip Melancth. p. 16.
510. "Ille prorsus obscurabit Erasmum." (Er. Ep. i, p. 405.)
511. "Cohorresco quando cogito quomodo ipse accesserim ad statuas in papatu." (Explicat Evangel.)
512. "Meum opus et meum solatium." (Corp. Ref., i, 33.)
513. "Des Wegs un der Orte unbekannt." (Corp. Ref., i, 30.)
514. Camer. Vita Melancth., 26.
515. "Puer et adolescentulus, si ætatem consideres." (Luth. Ep. i, 141.) A boy, and mere youth, if you consider his age.
516. Luth. Ep. i, 135.
517. "Ut Wittembergam literatis ac bonis omnibus conciliem." (Corp. Ref., i, 51.)
518. "Summos cum mediis et infimis, studiosos facit Græcitatis." (Luth., Ep. i, 140.)
519. "Martinum, si omnino in rebus humanis quidquam vehementissime diligio et animo integerrimo complector." (Melancth. Ep. i, 411.)
520. Calvin wrote to Sleidan: "Dominus cum fortiore spiritu instruat, ne gravem ex ejus timiditate jacturam sentiat posteritas." May the Lord supply him with a more resolute spirit, that posterity may not, through his timidity, sustain some grievous loss.
521. Plank.
522. Luth. Ep. i, p. 139.
523. Jen. Aug. i, p. 384.
524. "Contra omnium amicorum consilium comparui." I appeared contrary to the advice of all my friends.
525. Ep. i, 61.
526. "Ult vel stanguler, vel baptizer ad mortem." (Ibid. 129.) That I am either to be strangled or ducked to death.
527. "Uxor mea et liberi mei provisi sunt." (Luth. Ep. i, 129.)
528. "Sic enim sponsus noster, sponsus sanguinum nobis est." (Ibid.) See Exodus, iv, 25.
529. "Veni igitur pedester et pauper Augustam." (Luth.