[241] “Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 1, p. 401.
[242] Ibid., 403.
[243] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 62, p. 391.
[244] This is the only possible explanation of the following prayer contained in the solemn service for the Ordination of Ministers which he had drafted: “That Thou wouldst at length restrain and put an end to the wicked atrocities of the Pope and Mahometh and other factious spirits, who blaspheme Thy Name, destroy Thy Kingdom and resist Thy Will” (ibid., 64, p. 292).
[245] Ibid., 62, p. 389.
[246] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 30, 2, p. 107; Erl. ed., 31, p. 33.
[247] Ibid., 19, p. 631, in the writing “Ob Kriegsleutte auch ynn seligen Stande seyn künden,” 1526.
[248] Ibid., 23, p. 149; Erl. ed., 30, p. 68.
[249] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 62, p. 406 f. “Tischreden.”
[250] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 19, p. 75; Erl. ed., 22, p. 231. “Deudsche Messe und Ordnung Gottisdiensts,” 1526. In connection with Luther’s favourite expression “We Germans,” we may here remark that Luther’s opponents at Leipzig spread the report that he was really of Bohemian origin. This they did when, in his Sermon on the Body of Christ, preached in 1519, he had demanded the general use of the chalice at communion, as did the Utraquists of Bohemia. As to this statement that “I was born in Bohemia, educated at Prague and instructed in Wiclif’s writings,” Luther replied in his writing: “Erklerung etlicher Artickel yn seynem Sermon von dem heyligen Sacrament,” 1520, that this was a “piece of folly.” “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 81 f.