246. "Revocavit igitur Lutherus hominum mentes ad Filium Dei." (Melancth. Vita Luth.)
247. "Hujus doctrinæ dulcedine pii omnes valde capiebantur, et eruditis gratum erat." (Ibid.)
248. "Quasi ex tenebris, carcere squalore, educi Christum, prophetas, apostolos." (Ibid.)
249. "Oratio non in labris nasci, sed in pectore." (Ibid.)
250. "Eique propter auctoritatem, quam sanctitate morum antea pepererat, adsenserunt." (Melancth. Vita Luth.)
251. "Puto et hodie theologos omnes probos favere Luthero." (Erasmi, Ep. i, 652.)
252. "Illis præfero mysticos et Biblia." (Luth. Ep. i, 107.)
253. Die Deutsche Theologie, Strasbourg, 1519; Præf.
254. "Tu, domine Jesu, es justitia mea; ego autem sum peccatum tuum: tu assumpsisti meum, et dedisti mihi tuum." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 17.)
255. "Non enim justa agendo justi efficimur: sed justi fiendo et essendo, operamur justa." (Luth. Ep. i. p. 22.)
256. "Humana prævalent in eo plusquam divina." The human prevails in him more than the divine.
257. "Dabit ei Dominus intellectum suo forte tempore." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 52.)
258. Τι ουν; δυνατον αναμαρτητον ειναι ηδη. What, is it possible then to be without sin? asks Epictetus, (iv, 12, 19.) Αμηχανον Impossible! he replies.
259. ... "Sanctissimæ reliquiæ ... deificæ voluntatis suæ charitate amplexæ osculatæ." (Luth. Ep. i, 18.)
260. "Sed etiam ultro adorabam." (Luth. Op. (L.) p. 50.)
261. Luth. Op. (L) xvii. p. 142; and in the Latin Works, tom. i, p. 51.
262. "Cum Credenti omnia sint, auctore Christo, possibilia, superstitiosum est, humano arbitrio, aliis sanctis, alia deputari auxilia." (Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 142.)
263. Hilscher's Luther's Anwesenheit in Alt Dresden, 1728.
264. 1st May 1516, Ep. i, p. 20.
265. (Luth. Ep. i, p. 36.) "Non enim asper asperum, id est, non diabolus diabolum, sed suavis asperum, id est, digitus Dei ejicit dæmonia."
266. "Tam cito enim crux cessat esse crux quam cito I tus dixeris: Crux benedicta! inter ligna nullum tale." (Ep. i, 27.)
267. "Heiliglich, friedlich und züchtig." (Mathes. p. 10.)
268. Ep. i, p. 41, to Lange, (26th Oct. 1516.)
269. "Quo fugiam? Spero quod non corruet orbis, ruente fratre Martino." (Ibid.)
270. "Multa placent principi tuo, quæ Deo displicent." (Luth. Ep. i, 25.)
271. "li mihi maxime prosunt, qui mei pessime meminerint." (Ibid. 45.)
272. Quo sunt aliqua salubriora eo minus placent." (Luth. Ep. i, p.46)
273. "Quam amarum est quicquid nos sumus." (Ibid. p. 46.)
274. Luth. Op. (W.) xxii, p. 1849.
275. Ibid.
276. "Has tres postea in aula principis a me notatas garrierunt." (Luth. Ep. i, 85.) It was afterwards prattled that I had alluded to three ladies of the court.
277. Keith, Leb. Luth., p. 32.
278. "Inter medias me insidias conjectum." (Luth. Ep. i, 85.) That I had fallen into a snare.
279. "In me acriter et clamose invectus est." (Ibid.) He keenly and clamorously inveighed against me.
280. "Super Aristotelis et Thomæ nugis." (Ibid.) On the trifles of Aristotle and Thomas.
281. "Ne prodiret et in faciem meam spueret." (Luth. Ep. i, 85.) From coming forward and spitting in my face.
282. "Enixe se excusavit." (Ibid.) Earnestly excused himself.
283. "Cujus vellem hostes cito quam plurimos fieri." (Luth. Ep. i, 59.) Whose enemies I could wish quickly to become as numerous as possible.
284. "Optima et infallibilis ad gratiam præparatio et unice dispositio, est æterna Dei electio et prædestinatio." (Luth. Op. (L.) i, 56.) The best and infallible preparation, and the only predisposition for grace, is the eternal election and predestination of God.
285. "Breviter, nec rectum dictamen habet natura nec bonam voluntatem." (Ibid.) Briefly, nature has neither a right dictate nor a good will.