[1141] Ellinger, ibid., p. 175 f.
[1142] Above, p. 324. He was being attacked on account of the stress he laid on good works, so he wrote to Camerarius in December, 1536, but though so many preachers were now shouting in stentorian tones that it was erroneous to demand works, “posterity will be astonished that an age so mad could ever have been, when such folly met with applause.” Cp. “Pezelii Obiectiones et resp. Melanchthonis,” 5, p. 289, in Döllinger, “Die Reformation,” 1, p. 373.
[1143] To Veit Dietrich, June 22, 1537, “Corp. ref.,” 3, p. 383.
[1144] To the Landgrave of Hesse in 1524, under the title “Epitome renovatæ ecclesiasticæ doctrinæ” (“Corp. ref.,” 1, p. 704): “Iustitia vere christiana est, cum confusa conscientia per fidem in Christum erigitur et sentit, se accipere remissionem peccatorum propter Christum.” In the same “Epitome,” p. 706: “Ipsissimam iustitiam esse, credere quod per Christum remittantur peccata sine nostra satisfactione, sine nostris meritis.”
[1145] Cp. the passages in Döllinger, “Die Reformation,” 3, p. 291.
[1146] Letter of August or September, 1529, “Briefwechsel,” 7, p. 158.
[1147] Even in his “Discendæ theologiæ ratio” of 1530 (“Corp. ref.,” 2, p. 457), Melanchthon had said: “Multa sunt in illis (Locis) adhuc rudiora, quæ decrevi mutare.”
[1148] To Veit Dietrich, June 22, 1537, “Corp. ref.,” 3, p. 383: “Scio, re ipsa Lutherum sentire eadem.”
[1149] Fr. Loofs, “Leitfaden zum Studium der Dogmengesch.,”4, 1906, p. 857. He says, that Melanchthon “was deceiving himself” in asserting that Luther’s teaching was the same.
[1150] “Phil. Melanchthon, eine Charakterskizze,” 1906, p. 3.