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ft971 He refers to their meeting at Frankfurt, which took place in 1539,
seven years before Luther’s death and five years before his last book
against the Sacramentarians. See above, § 90, pp. 388 sq.
ft972 The other leaders of the anti-Melanchthonian ultra-Lutheranism were
Amsdorf (d. 1565), Westphal (d. 1574), Flacius (d. 1575), Judex (d.
1574), Jimann (d. 1557), Gallus (d. 1570), and Wigand (d. 1587). The
chief pupils of Melanchthon were Eber (d. 1569), Cruciger (d. 1548)
and his son (d. 1575), Camerarius (d. 1574), Peucer, Krell, Pezel,
Pfeffinger, Hardenberg, Major, Menius. One of the noblest traits of
Luther was his hearty appreciation of Melanchthon to the end of his
life, notwithstanding the marked difference. His narrow followers
entirely lacked this element of liberality and generosity. Comp. Dorner,
Geschichte der protest. Theologie, pp. 330 sqq.
ft973 I coin this word from the Lutheran formula cum, in, and sub pane et
vino. The usual designation “consubstantiation” is repudiated by
Lutherans in the sense of impanation or local inclusion.
ft974 Planck and Heppe give him a bad character, and charge him with
inordinate ambition and avarice. According to Heppe he was, einer der
widerwärtigsten lutherischen Pfaffen seiner Zeit.” Hackenschmidt
judges him more mildly as a consistent advocate of the tendency which
makes no distinction between religion and theology, church authority
and police force. The Strassburg editors (Opera, IX. Prol. p. xii.) call
him a “vir imperiosus et filoneiko>tatov.” Bullinger compared him to
the Homeric Thersites, who was despised for scurrility.
ft975 See § 133, p. 669.
ft976 Planck, vol. V. Part II. 383 sqq.
ft977 He wrote to him: “Oro, si statuisti respondere, respondeas ad
argumenta, diligenter preterita persona illa Thersitis homerici.”
ft978 See § 90, p. 398.
ft979 · Responsio ad praejudicium Philippi Melanchthonis, 1560.
ft980 Astrologia judiciaria as distinct from astrologia naturalis, or simply
astrologia.
ft981 Hence “Chaldaei,” “mathematici,” “astrologi,” were identical terms.
ft982 He wrote to Bullinger from Wittenberg, Aug. 20, 1550: “Omnes ab
uno Melanchthone [pendent], qui Astrologiae judiciariae fuit
addictus, et unus ille ab astrisne magis, an ab astrorum conditore ac