[277] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 4, p. 207; 3, p. 535.
[278] “Werke”, Erl. ed., 58, p. 382; Table-Talk.
[279] To George Spenlein, April 8, 1516, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 29: “anima tua, pertæsa propriam iustitiam, discat in iustitia Christi respirare atque confidere,” etc.; see above, p. 89.
[280] See above, p. 83.
[281] “Disputation of Bartholomew Bernhardi”; “Werke,” Weim. ed., p. 145 ff.
[282] “Disputation of Franz Günther”; ibid., p. 224 ff., Nos. 37, 25.
[283] To Johann Lang, March 1, 1517, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 88. He will not be one: “qui arbitrio hominis nonnihil tribuit.”
[284] The Seven Penitential Psalms; “Werke,” Weim. ed., 1, p. 158 ff., especially pp. 160, 201, 211, 213, 219. For “pains of hell” cp. ibid., p. 557.
[285] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 1, pp. 319-24.
[286] To Staupitz, March 31, 1518, “Briefwechsel,” p. 175 f.
[287] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 53, p. 288 (1525); Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 465 ff.
[288] Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 552 ff.
[289] “Opp. Lat. var.,” 6, p. 396; Weim. ed., 10, 2, p. 87 (an. 1522): “opera quibus erga homines utendum est, offerunt Deo,” etc.
[290] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 15², p. 282: “They praise their works,” “the lousy works.” Cp. ibid., 22², pp. 52, 381.
[291] At Halle. “Werke,” Erl. ed., 16, p. 221 ff., against the “lousy monks” and their “holiness by works.” Cp. generally the four last sermons at Eisleben, ibid., pp. 209, 230, 245, 264.
[292] To George Leiffer, April 15, 1516, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 31.
[293] March 31, 1518, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 175.
[294] “Pride brought him to fall and to despair of himself, pride prevented his rising again and made him despair of God’s grace which assists us to keep God’s law which our concupiscence resists.” So Denifle-Weiss, 1², p. 463.
[295] Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 18. Biel’s much-esteemed book on the Mass was composed principally of discourses to the clergy delivered in the cathedral at Mayence by his friend and teacher Egeling Becker of Brunswick. In the title Biel speaks of him as “vita pariter et doctrina præfulgidus.” Adolf Franz, “Die Messe im deutschen Mittelalter” (1902), p. 550 ff.
[296] “Tischreden,” “Werke,” Erl. ed., 58, p. 243.
[297] “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 6: he yearns for theology which examines “the kernel of the nut and the marrow of the bones: quæ nucleum nucis et medullam tritici et medullam ossium scrutatur.”
[298] G. Oergel, “Vom jungen Luther,” Erfurt, 1899, p. 113.
[299] Denifle, 1¹, p. 501 f.
[300] Oergel, p. 118, from the Gotha MS., A 262, fol. 258.
[301] This is at least what he assures the Erfurt Faculty, December 21, 1514. “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 24.
[302] Letter of the Elector to Staupitz (April 7, 1518), in Kolde, “Anal. Lutherana,” p. 314.
[303] “Luther und Luthertum,” 1², p. 607, n. 1.
[304] When Luther in his answers to Prierias (Weim. ed., 1, p. 661), angered at his opponent’s frequent references to the Angelic Doctor, remarks: “etiam ea quæ fidei sunt, in quæstiones vocat et fidem vertit in ‘utrum,’” the words “quæstiones” and “utrum” lead us to doubt whether he had done more than read the headings of the “Questions.” Cp. Denifle, 1¹, p. 550.
[305] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 600; “Opp. Lat. var.,” 5, p. 137.
[306] Cordatus, “Tagebuch,” p. 165.
[307] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 24², p. 375.
[308] Mathesius, “Tischreden” (ed. Kroker), p. 172. Uttered between the 7th and the 24th August, 1540.
[309] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 183; “Opp. Lat. var.,” 4, p. 188.
[310] “Opp. Lat. var.,” 1, p. 315 seq.
[311] Denifle-Weiss, 2, p. 331.
[312] Ibid., p. 229.
[313] Denifle, “Chartularium universitatis Paris.,” 2, p. 588.
[314] Thus A. Weiss, p. 330.