[457] “Ausführliche Nachricht von M. Luthero,” in his edition of Luther, 24, p. 357.
[458] Ibid., p. 359 f.
[459] To Myconius, January 9, 1541, “Briefe,” 5, p. 327.
[460] P. 361, where he quotes Mathesius’s Sermons on Luther, 13, p. 148 (Nuremberg edition, 1566, p. 157). Cp. “Briefwechsel,” 13, p. 11, and what Weller says (vol. vi., xxxviii. 2) of the two dead people raised to life by Luther. In the German “Table-Talk” (“Werke,” Erl. ed., 59, p. 3) Luther says of prayer: “The prayer of the Church performs great miracles. In our own time it has restored three dead men to life; first me, for often I was sick unto death, then my housekeeper Katey, who was also sick unto death, finally Philip Melanchthon, who, anno 1540, lay sick unto death at Weimar. Though Liberatio a morbis et corporalibus periculis is not the best of miracles, yet it must not be allowed to pass unheeded propter infirmitatem in fide. To me it is a much greater miracle that God Almighty should every day bestow the grace of baptism, give Himself in the Sacrament of the altar and absolve et liberat a peccato, a morte et damnatione æterna. These are great miracles.” Cp. Förstemann’s notes, “Tischreden,” 2, p. 230.
[461] “Briefe,” ed. De Wette, 5, p. 169.
[462] “Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 1, p. 324, and ibid., quotation from Rebenstock’s Latin Colloquies. Seidemann in Lauterbach’s “Tagebuch” also quotes Khummer’s MS., p. 397.
[463] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 63, p. 362.
[464] Ibid., 14², p. 399.
[465] Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 199: “Vaticinium Lutheri de seditione nobilium in Germania.”
[466] “Unschuldige Nachrichten,” 1718, p. 316, with quotation from “Church Agenda, p. 52.”