[189] “Die Entstehung der lutherischen und reformierten Kirchenlehre,” Göttingen, 1910, p. 271.
[190] That the death penalty for bigamy also dated from the Middle Ages need hardly be pointed out.
[191] For the proofs which follow we may refer to the selection made by N. Paulus (“Hist.-pol. Bl.,” 147, 1911, p. 503 ff., 561 ff.) in the article “Die hessische Doppelehe im Urteile der protest. Zeitgenossen.”
[192] Amsdorf’s “Bedenken,” probably from the latter end of June, 1540, published by Rockwell, ibid., p. 324.
[193] “Briefwechsel des Jonas,” 1, pp. 394, 396. Above, p. 27, n. 1. Further details in Paulus, ibid., p. 562.
[194] Jonas, ibid., p. 397.
[195] P. Tschackert, “Briefwechsel des Anton Corvinus,” 1900, p. 79. Paulus, ibid., p. 563.
[196] G. T. Schmidt, “Justus Menius über die Bigamie.” (“Zeitschr. f. d. hist. Theol.,” 38, 1868, p. 445 ff. More from it in Paulus, p. 565. Cp. Rockwell, ibid., p. 126.)
[197] Th. Pressel, “Anecdota Brentiana,” 1868, p. 210: “Commaculavit ecclesiam temeritate sua fœdissime.”
[198] Paulus, ibid., p. 569 f.