[261] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 289; Erl. ed., 27, p. 91. Cp. our vol. ii., p. 9 f.
[262] “Luthers Stellung zu Concil und Kirche,” 1876, p. 69.
[263] H. Meltzer, “Luther als deutscher Mann,” Tübingen, 1905, p. 56.
[264] Cp. above, p. 45 f. “Let things take their course and do their worst, whether it be war or rebellion, as God’s anger may decree.” “Werke,” Weim. ed., 30, 3, p. 279; Erl. ed., 25², p. 8, “Warnunge an seine lieben Deudschen,” 1531.
[265] On November 10, 1541, “Briefe,” ed. De Wette, 5, p. 407: “Ego pæne de Germania desperavi,” etc. Of this passage we read in Köstlin-Kawerau (2, p. 572): “The exaltation which had been experienced by every grade of the nation during the first period of the Reformation had, as a matter of fact, largely died out, and now the lowest motives held sway.”
[266] On March 7, 1543, ibid., p. 548: “Neque bene habebit Germania, sive regnet Turca sive nostrates,” etc.
[267] See vol. v., xxxv., 6.
[268] Ibid., xxxv., 3.
[269] Ibid.
[270] “Deutsche Literaturztg.,” 1905, No. 10, Scheel’s Review of H. Meltzer’s “Luther als deutscher Mann” (see above, p. 98, n. 1).