From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

down, and wrote to Wittenberg for his books. By
the end of April they had arrived, and he
immediately set to work. He returned to his version
of Jeremiah, and completed it before the end of
June. He then resumed the Minor Prophets, and
before the middle of August all had been
translated, with the exception of Haggai and
Malachi. He wrote an exposition of several of the
Psalms–the 2nd, the 113th, and 117th–a discourse
on the necessity of schools for children, and
various tracts–one on purgatory, another on the
power of the "keys," and a third on the intercession
of saints. With untiring labor he forged bolt after
bolt, and from his retreat discharged them at the
enemy.
But the too active spirit wore out the body.
Luther was seized with vertigo. The plains, with
their woods and meadows, seemed to revolve
around the Castle of Coburg; his ears were stunned
with great noises; at times it was as if a thunderpeal
were resounding in his head. Then, perforce,
the pen was laid down. But again he would snatch
it up, and give Philip the benefit of his dear-bought
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