[1440] Schlaginhaufen, ib.
[1441] To Hier. Weller, June 19, 1530, “Briefwechsel,” 8, p. 5.
[1442] Schlaginhaufen, ib., pp. 9, 88. “Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 2, p. 316. “Werke,” Erl. ed., 52, p. 24 f.
[1443] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 57, p. 99.
[1444] See vol. iii., p. 13 ff.; vol. iv., pp. 413 ff., 440 ff., 444, 448.
[1445] Above, vol. iv., p. 398 ff.
[1446] Above, vol. iv., p. 403 ff.
[1447] Ib., pp. 404 f., 410 ff., 414 f.
[1448] Above, vol. iii., pp. 8 ff., 18 ff., and below, xxxiv., 1.
[1449] The “Süddeutsche Blätter f. Kirche u. freies Christentum” (1911, No. 24) appealed, as against the deposition of Pastor Jatho by the Spruchkollegium of Berlin, to Luther’s words in the above writing: “In this matter, i.e. in judging of doctrine, deposing teachers or those holding a cure of souls, we must pay no heed to human regulations and laws, to ancient custom and usage, etc. ... the soul must be ruled and gripped only by the Eternal Word.” “It is high time,” adds the Editor, “for us again to call to mind that view of faith which gives to the soul and the conscience that sacred and inalienable right to which every man has a claim”; he also points out, again appealing to Luther, the “impossible state of things” to which any compulsion exercised under plea of the Creed must lead, of which each of the twelve judges of the Spruchkollegium has a different opinion. “It is admittedly allowable to deviate to a certain extent from the Confession of the Church. In this case, however, the judges suddenly turn on a man and say: But not so far as this. The question is: How far then may one go?”