Martin Luther - the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 - by Henry Eyster Jacobs (1906) (14590915678)

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Title: Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jacobs, Henry Eyster, 1844-1932
Subjects: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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g up the fire, and singing the Te Deum.Their youthful ardour found expression in pro-ceedings that Luther thought it necessary the nextday, at his lectures, to censure. They convertedthe burning into a matter of sport, singing funeralhymns over the expiring embers, and then, return-ing to Wittenberg, procured a wagon, and passedthrough the streets in procession, gathering largequantities of the books of Luthers adversaries, andwith them caused the flames at the pest-house tobe started anew. With Luther, however, the acthad been no mere sport. He meant what he saidwhen he announced it as a religious act. It was in-tended to declare to his adversaries, that his booksmust be answered by argument; and that if, insteadof refuting, they chose to burn them, that planwas just as admissible on his side. The last bridgewas broken. The next day he publicly declared: If, with your whole heart, you do not separatefrom the dominion of the Pope, you cannot be * Letter to Staupitz, De Wette, i : 542.
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1520) The Bull 177 saved. ... In this wicked world, I wouldrather endure all perils than, by silence, burden myconscience with the account I must render to God. * *With characteristic promptness, in a pamphlet thatappeared the same month, he justifies his course inburning the canonical law, by the citation of thirtypassages, in which its teaching is directly contradic-tory to Holy Scripture. Not only was he at this timeaware of his probable appearance before the Emperorto answer for his course, but his heart was saddenedby the defection, under the threats made by Eck, ofAdelmann of Augsburg, and the two Nurembergers,Pirkheimer and Spengler, and the wavering of Stau-pitz, Luthers old friend and preceptor, who, feelinghimself unequal to the conflict, had sought to escapeit by resigning his position as Vicar-General of theAugustines, and had retired to Saltzburg, where hewas preacher to the archbishop, and where he hopedto end his days in peace. But there he was sum-moned before a notary