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Title: History of the great reformation in Europe in the times of Luther and Calvin..
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Henri. (from old catalog)
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you toanswer to these questions. First: Do youacknowledge these writings to have beencomposed by you V At the same time thespeaker pointed wTith his finger to about twentyvolumes placed on a table in the centre of thehall, immediately before Luther. I couldnot guess where they had obtained them,said Luther, relating the fact; it wras Alean-der who had taken the trouble to collect them.Secondly, continued the Chancellor, Areyou prepared to retract these, and the proposi-tions contained therein, or do you persist inwhat you have therein advanced ? Luther, without faltering, was about to an-swer the first question in the affirmative, whenJerome SchurfT, hastily interrupting him, exclaimed aloud, Let their titles be read. The Chancellor advancing to the table readthe titles. There were in the number severalworks of a devotional character, and altogetheiunconnected with the controverted points. The enumeration being gone through, Lu-ther spoke as follows, first in Latin, then icGerman:—
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LUTHER PREPARING BY PRAYER.LUTHER AND FRONDSBERG, HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION. yoi Most gracious Emperor, Princes andLords ! His Imperial Majesty puts to me twoquestions. As to the first, I acknowledge the books,the names of which have been read, to be ofmy writing; I cannot deny them. As to the second, seeing that it is a ques-tion which has reference to faith, and the sal-vation of souls,—a question which concernsthe word of God, the greatest and most pre-cious treasure of heaven or earth, —1 shouldact rashly if I were to answer without reflec-tion. I might say less than the circumstancedemands, or more than truth requires, and sosin against that word of Christ,—Whosoevershall deny me before men, him I will deny be-fore my Father who is in heaven. Thereforet is that I most humbly desire his ImperialMajesty to allow me time, that I may answerwithout offending against the word of God. This reply, far from countenancing the sup-position of indecision in Luther, was worthyof the Re

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