In Germany to the Leipsic Disputation - James Aitken Wylie

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on which he was entering, and the state of public feeling and sentiment north of the Alps. The age was past when men would bow down implicitly before sheets of parchment and bits of lead. Wherein, men asked, does the Pope's teaching on indulgences differ from Tetzel's, unless in the greater decency of its language? The doctrine is the same, only in the one case it is written in the best Latin they are now masters of at Rome, whereas in the other it is proclaimed with stentorian voice in the coarsest Saxon. But plain it is that the Pope as really as Tetzel brings the money-chest to our doors, and expects that we shall fill it. He vaunts his treasure of merits, but it is as the chapman vaunts his wares, that we may buy; and the more we sin, the richer will they be at Rome. Money — money — money, is the beginning, middle, and end of this new decretal. It was in this fashion that the Germans spoke of the edict of November 9, which was to bolster up Cajetan and extinguish Luther. The Pope had exonerated Tetzel, but it was at the expense of taking the whole of this immense scandal upon himself and his system. The chief priest of Christendom presented himself before the 196
world holding the bag with as covetous a grip as any friar of them all. In another way the decree of the Pope helped to overthrow the system it was meant to uphold. It compelled Luther to go deeper than he had yet ventured to do in his investigations into the Papacy. He now looked at its foundations. The doctrine of indulgences in its sacrilegious and blasphemous form he had believed to be the doctrine of Tetzel only; now he saw it to be the doctrine of Leo of Rome as well. Leo had endorsed Tetzel's and Cajetan's interpretation of the matter. The conclusion to which Luther's studies were tending is indicated in a letter which he wrote about this time to his friend Wenceslaus Link at Nuremberg: "The conviction is daily growing upon me," says he, "that the Pope is Antichrist." And when Spalatin inquired what he thought of war against the Turk — "Let us begin," he replied, "with the Turk at home; it is fruitless to fight carnal wars and be overcome in spiritual wars." The conclusion was in due time reached. The 197
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world, stood up. So was it when the
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uilt, he had turned its soil with t
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thrones of Europe. To these we may
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was a lover of books. Books then we
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miner. Had the Pope (Sextus V. was
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Luther, with all his excellence, wa
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imagine that the buoyant or boister
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made him sit down at her board; and
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issued in mere benevolent schemings
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Chapter 2 Luther's College Life IN
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In these studies Luther forged the
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page as Columbus may be supposed to
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the learned judge. But God visited
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deliverance by the works of the law
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When the tidings reached Mansfeld,
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of delivering Christendom, and he h
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In this kind of drudgery was the da
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changed into the taciturn solitary.
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ules of my order more strictly than
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monk's thoughts could scarce avoid
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ut he lacked the courage to be the
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the holiness of God. It was not the
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But the change in Luther was not ye
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afterwards had to fight before the
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discarded it from her practice; or
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the silver trumpets of the Day of J
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In the Protestant Churches, the off
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Nevertheless, he set about doing th
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Staupitz watched the career of the
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attention of his countrymen. Before
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on its path. God had bidden it go o
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Augustines and their Vicar-General.
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sublimity that met his eye and rega
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in it. Again setting forth, and tra
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healed in body as in soul. He resum
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princely hospitality. Scholars from
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But the stake of Savonarola might b
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mockery. It seemed as if the genial
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perished from its bosom. The numero
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Chapter 7 Luther in Rome AFTER many
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imparting to him a new life - "The
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One day Luther was saying mass in o
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into the Tiber. But all the vigilan
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This was the third time these same
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of the Turks, the Emperor of the Ta
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Chapter 8 Tetzel Preaches Indulgenc
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passions which distinguished the Me
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there to rear a temple that would e
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invention, the power of his effront
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in effect did Tetzel harangue the c
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No argument was spared by the monk
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of the cashier of the house of Fugg
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place and the wayside inn. The more
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many miserable beings live in flame
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Chapter 9 The "Theses" THE great re
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in mind that Luther still believed
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man who had farmed these indulgence
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to Wittemberg to nourish their piet
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37. Every true Christian, dead or l
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In this paper Luther struck at more
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two unpardonable crimes - he has at
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Duke John: "Is it a good or a bad d
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this monk, and applied particularly
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of the evening at Wittemberg we hav
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ighteousness. But the sound of Luth
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presses set to work, and speedily t
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discussion should spring up in the
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sense of Holy Scripture, and to app
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doctrines Christians were to believ
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the sole infallible authority, said
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Hutten - a knight, whose manner it
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even then, it threw down the gage o
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