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Title: Martin Luther, the man and his work
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, 1861-1933
Subjects: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mediately denounced as a heretic, condemned to theflames, and declared worthy of eternal damnation. Many years afterward, in one of his typical polemicworks, he gave the following account of the affair: It happened in the year 1517 that a Dominican monk,John Tetzel by name, a great ranter, went up and downselling grace for gold as dear or as cheap as he could.The Elector Frederick had once saved his life in Inns-bruck, for he had been condemned by the emperor Maxi-milian to be drowned in the river Inn, for his virtuessake, you may well believe. This the man confessedfrankly, being reminded of it by the elector long after-ward when he began to slander us Wittenbergers. I was at the time a preacher in the cloister and a youngdoctor fresh from the forge, ardent and merry in theholy Scriptures. When many people from Wittenbergran after indulgences to Jiiterbog and Zerbst, and I, sotruly as my Christ has redeemed me, did not know whatindulgences were,—as, for that matter, nobody did,—I
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From the painting by Lucas Cranach, in St. PetersburgALBERT, PRINCE OF BRANDENBURG, ELECTOR AND ARCHBISHOP OF MAYENCE THE ATTACK ON INDULGENCES 85 began to preach gently that it was certain there werebetter things to do than buy indulgences. I had alreadypreached against them to the same effect here in thecastle, and incurred the Elector Fredericks ill will, forhe was very fond of his castle church. But to come tothe true cause of the Lutheran uproar, I let the matter goon as it would until news reached me of the shocking andhorrible things Tetzel was preaching—as, for instance,that he had received such grace and power from the popethat he could even forgive a person who had violated theMother of God, if the proper amount were put in thebox; that the red cross of indulgence, with the popesarms, when set up in church, was as powerful as thecross of Christ; that in heaven he would not change placeswith St. Peter himself, for he had saved more souls withindulgences than the apostle wit

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