[91] “Opp. Lat. var,” 4, 233. Some preach, “Ut affectus humanos moveant ad condolendum Christo ad indignandum Iudæis et id genus alia puerilia et muliebria deliramenta.” One must preach, “eo fine, quo fides in eum promoveatur”; this preaching is in agreement with the teaching according to which in Christ, “omnium domini sumus, et quidquid egerimus, coram Deo placitum et acceptum esse confidimus.”
[92] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 405; Erl. ed., 21, p. 278 f.
[93] Ibid., p. 414 [291]
[94] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 468 f. [360 f.].
[95] Ibid., 500 f. “Opp. Lat. var.,” 5, p. 20.
[96] Ibid., p. 173 f. [= 118].
[97] See Döllinger, “Die Reformation,” 1, p. 162.
[98] Ibid., p. 165.
[99] See Döllinger, “Die Reformation,” 1², p. 586 f. Cp. 169 ff., 1, p. xv. Also J. Schlecht, “K. Leib’s Briefwechsel und Diarien,” Münster, 1909, p. 12.
[100] Friedr. Roth, “Wilh. Pirkheimer,” Halle, 1887 (Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgesch., v. 4). The author says, Pirkheimer’s final opinion on Lutheranism is summed up in the words: “God keep all pious men, countries and peoples from such teaching, for where it is there is no peace, quiet or unity.” Though Pirkheimer confessed “with energy that he was once more a member of the olden Catholic Church,” he nevertheless remained as much a Humanist as a Catholic as he had been as a Protestant. Yet that he still saw some good in Luther’s cause is clear from what Melanchthon writes of him as late as April, 1530. “Fuimus apud Pirchamerum hodie, ego et Ionas, qui de te et causa honorifice sentit.” To Luther, April 28, 1530, “Briefwechsel Luthers,” 7, p. 310. P. Drews, “Pirkheimers Stellung zur Reformation,” Leipzig, 1887, is more sceptical regarding his return to Catholicism, though he brings forward no definite proofs to the contrary. He himself mentions how Cochlæus, in a letter of March 10, 1529, invited Pirkheimer (“Pirkheimer Opp.,” ed. Goldast, p. 396) to write a satire in verse on Luther after the model of his own “Lutherus septiceps.”