[89] Ibid., p. 341.
[90] “Analecta Lutherana,” ed. Kolde, p. 353 seq. Cp. Rockwell, loc. cit., p. 71, n. 1.
[91] E. Friedberg remarks in the “Deutsche Zeitschr. f. KR.,” 36, 1904, p. 441, that the Wittenbergers “did not even possess any power of dispensing.”
[92] Cp. N. Paulus, “Das Beichtgeheimnis und die Doppelehe Philipps usw.,” “Hist.-pol. Bl.,” 135, 1905, p. 317 ff.
[93] Cp. Rockwell, loc. cit., pp. 154, 156.
[94] Yet in a later missive to Philip of Hesse (Sep. 17, 1540) he too speaks of the “counsel given in Confession in case of necessity.” Here, however, he bases his injunction of silence on other considerations.
[95] “Philipps Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 208.
[96] “Briefwechsel des Jonas,” 1, p. 394.
[97] “Briefwechsel,” 13, p. 79.
[98] Ed. by Seidemann, “Lauterbachs Tagebuch,” p. 196 ff., with the notice, “Written in April or June, 1540.” Rockwell gives the date more correctly, as, probably, June 10 (pp. 138, 364).