[577] Letter to Reissenbusch, March 27, 1525, “Werke,” Weim. ed., 18, p. 277; Erl. ed., 53, p. 288 (“Briefwechsel,” 5, p. 145).
[578] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 1, p. 105.
[579] Ibid.
[580] See below, p. 196.
[581] “Der rechte Weg. Welche Weg oder Strass der Glaubig wandeln soll,” etc. Dillingen, 1553. The passages are quoted by N. Paulus, “Die deutschen Dominikaner im Kampfe gegen Luther,” p. 252.
[582] “Christl. Predigt. an S. Matthei Tag,” Mainz, 1557, in Paulus, ibid., p. 168.
[583] “Predigten über die erste Canon. Epistel Johannis,” Cologne, 1571. Paulus, ibid., p. 173.
[584] “Vormeldunge der Unwahrheit Lutherscher Clage,” Frankfurt a.d. Oder, 1532, Paulus, ibid., p. 33. The three writers above quoted were all Dominicans. Luther’s Catholic contemporaries cannot have been acquainted with his “Pecca fortiter,” otherwise their language would have been even stronger.
[585] “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 208. The letter no longer exists in its entirety. One portion, however, became known and was published by Joh. Aurifaber in 1556 in the first vol. of Luther’s letters (p. 343) and described as “Fragmentum epistolæ D.M. Lutheri ad Philippum Melanchthonem ex Pathmo scriptæ, a. MDXXI., repertum in bibliotheca Georgii Spalatini.” Melanchthon had possibly sent the extract to Spalatin when the latter was troubled regarding his own salvation.
[586] (See below.) “Vides quantis urgear æstibus,” etc. To Melanchthon, August 3, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 213.