578. "Revoca, aut non revertere." Ibid. p. 202.
579. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 210.
580. Ibid., p. 204.
581. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 185.
582. "Ego nolo amplius cum hac bestia disputare. Habet enim profundos oculos et mirabiles speculationes in capite suo" (Myconius, p. 33.)
583. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 210.
584. Luth. Ep. i. 149.
585. Luth. Ep. i. p. 159.
586. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 178.
587. Saturday, 15th
588. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 182.
589. The letter is dated 17th October.
590. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 198.
591. Bosuet, Hist. des Variations. (Livre i, pp. 25, etc.)
592. "Ut follis ille ventosa elatione distentus." (P. 40.)
593. "Melius informandum." (Luth. Op. Lat. I, p. 219.)
594. Weissmann, Hist. Eccl., i, p. 1237.
595. Psalm cxxiv. 7, 8.
596. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 202.
597. Luth. Ep. i, p. 166.
598. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 183.
599. Ibid. p. 203.
600. "Ego enim ubicunque ero gentium, illustrissimæ Dominationis tuæ nusqum non ero memor...." (Luth. Ep. i. p. 187.)
601. Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 244.
602. Luth. Ep. i, p. 198.
603. Scultet. Annal. i, p. 17.
604. "Studium nostrum more formicarum fervet." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 193.)
605. "Quia Deus ubique." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 188.)
606. "Ut principi me in captivatem darem." (Ibid. p. 189.)
607. "Si icro totum effundam et vitam offeram Christo." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 190.)
608. "Deo rem committerent." (Ibid., p. 191.)
609. "Vater und Mutter verlassen mich, aber der Herr nimmt mich auf."
610. Luth. Op. xv, 824.
611. "Ne tam cito in Galliam irem." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 195.)
612. "Firma Christus propositum non cendi in me." (Ibid.)
613. "Res ista necdum habet initium suum meo judicio." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 19.)
614. "Quo illi magis furunt, et vi affectant viam, eo minus ego terreor." (Ibid., p. 191.)
615. Sarpi, Council of Trent, p. 8.
616. Maimbourg, p. 38.
617. Löscher. Ref. Act.
VOLUME II
BOOK FIFTH
Chapter I.
THE DISCUSSION OF LEIPSIC, 1519
Luther's Dangers—God saves Luther—The Pope sends a Chamberlain—The Legate's Journey—Briefs of Rome—Circumstances favourable to the Reformation—Miltitz with Spalatin—Tezel's Terror—Caresses of Miltitz—A Recantation demanded—Luther refuses, but offers to be silent—Agreement between Luther and the Nuncio—The Legate's Embrace—Tezel overwhelmed by the Legate—Luther to the Pope—Nature of the Reformation—Luther against Separation—De Vie and Miltitz at Trèves—Luther's cause extends in different countries—Luther's writings the commencement of the Reformation.
Dangers had gathered round Luther and the Reformation. The doctor of Wittemberg's appeal to a General Council was a new attack on papal authority. By a bull of Pius II, the greater excommunication had been denounced even against emperors who should dare to incur the guilt of such a revolt. Frederick of Saxony, as yet imperfectly confirmed in evangelical doctrine,