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that Eck was struck by apoplexy (May 10), but recovered, adding:
“Nondum meretur mundus ista bestia liberari.” (Herminjard, VII. 116
sq.) Eck died Feb. 16, 1543. Franz Burckhard, the Saxon Chancellor,
gave, in a letter to Pontanus, April 22, 1541, a similar estimate of
Pflug, Gropper, and Eck, and calls the last an “ebrius sophista, qui
pluris facit Bacchum quam ullam religionem “ (Mel. Epist. IV. 185).
Mosellanus described Eck, as he appeared at the disputation in Leipzig,
as “a big-bodied, broad-shouldered, stout-hearted, and impudent man,
who looked more like a town-crier than a theologian.” Melanchthon
thought that “no pious person could listen without disgust to the
sophisms and vain subtleties of that talking mountebank.”
ft536 Calvin to Farel. May 11, 1541, in Herminjard, VII. 111 sq.
ft537 Herminjard, VII. 115.
ft538 These formulas are printed in Melanchthon’s Epistolae, IV. 262-264.
ft539 Or, in-breaded God, impanatus Deus.
ft540 The leading Lutheran divine of Württemberg, who attended the
Colloquy.
ft541 The popular wit described the failure of the Colloquy in the line: “Sie
pflügen (Pflug, Plough), eggen (Eck), graben (Grobber), putzen
(Bucer or Butzer), und backen (Pistorius, whose German name was
Becker), und richten nichts aus.” Corp. Reform. IV. 335.
ft542 Calvin wrote to Viret from Strassburg, Aug. 13, 1541 (Herminjard,
VII. 218) “Finis comitiorum talis fuit qualem ego fore semper
divinavi. Tota enim pacificationis actio in fumum abiit, cum ad
concilium universale rejecta est, vel saltem nationale, si illud brevi
obtineri nequeat. Quid enim hoc aliud est quam frustrari?”
ft543 Letter to Farel from Strassburg, early in July, 1541, in Herminjard,
VII. 176. He gives in this letter an account of the later disputes at
Regensburg on confession and absolution, the invocation of saints, and
the primacy of the pope.
ft544 Herminjard, VII. 65 sqq.; Opera, XI. 174 sqq.
ft545 “Mihi dies ac noctes animo obversatur uxor, consilii inops, quia
capite suo caret.’
ft546 See below, Par. 92, p. 421.