In Germany from the Leipsic Disputation to the Diet at Worms - James Aitken Wylie

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ut there was a deep calm in the eyes whose glance Cardinal Cajetan liked so ill at Augsburg. The evil auguries which had haunted the monk at every stage of his journey were renewed within the walls of Worms. Pressing through the crowd came a person in grotesque costume, displaying a great cross, such as is carried before the corpse when it is being borne to the grave, and chanting, in the same melancholy cadence in which mass is wont to be sung for the dead, this doleful requiem– "Advenisti, O desiderabilis! Quem expectabamus in tenebris!" Those who arranged this ill-omened pageant may have meant it for a little grim pleasantry, or they may have intended to throw ridicule upon the man who was advancing single-handed to do battle with both the temporal and spiritual powers; or it may have been a last attempt to quell a spirit which no former device or threat had been able to affright. But whatever the end in view, we recognize in this strange affair a most fitting, 110
though doubtless a wholly undesigned, representation of the state and expectancies of Christendom at that hour. Had not the nations waited in darkness– darkness deep as that of those who dwell among the dead–for the coming of a deliverer? Had not such a deliverer been foretold? Had not Huss seen Luther's day a century off, and said to the mourners around his stake, as the patriarchs on their deathbed, "I die, but God will surely visit you?" The "hundred years" had revolved, and now the deliverer appears. He comes in humble guise–in cowl and frock of monk. He appears to many of his own age as a Greater appeared to His, "a root out of a dry ground." How can this poor despised monk save us? men asked. But he brought with him that which far transcends the sword of conqueror–the Word, the Light; and before that Light fled the darkness. Men opened their eyes, and saw that already their fetters, which were ignorance and superstition, were rent. They were free. 111
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from a throne, the greatest then in
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who had not forgiven his discomfitu
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outcry which had been raised agains
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discoursed together at his table. H
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It would complete his glory, and re
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ecome emperor? Most historians have
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Frederick of Saxony had declined wh
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it will operate spiritual effects o
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most; masterly picture of the Roman
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These, to use Luther's metaphor, we
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The instant remedies which he urged
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doctrine of man's inability and God
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who held them in bondage. They have
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nor all the great ones of earth cou
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ages. Rebel kings, proud heresiarch
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Meanwhile rumors reached Luther of
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assembly of all the saints, holy Ch
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eyes. The Pope advanced with excomm
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his career by going into permanent
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in the faith of the recipient. Fait
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cannot help looking to you, O Leo,
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even before you could try any remed
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two poles of that liberty he descri
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position in the eyes of the world,
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these many piles of Eck and Aleande
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of the monk. A more peaceful exit a
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life of the Christian, that it will
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Hills, and flung it back at her fro
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