[2247] “Joh. Althusius und die Entwicklung der naturrechtlichen Staatstheorie,”² Breslau, 1902, p. 64 f. Paulus, ib., p. 349.
[2248] Ib.
[2249] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 30, 2, p. 109; Erl. ed., 31, p. 34 f.
[2250] See vol. ii., p. 297 f., from the writing, “Von welltlicher Uberkeytt.”
[2251] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 8, p. 680; Erl. ed., 22, p. 48 f. Cp. letter to the Elector Frederick, March 7, 1522, “Werke,” Erl. ed., 53, p. 111 (“Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 298).
[2252] To Wenceslaus Link, March 19, 1522, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 315. “Ipsos principes vincemus et contemnemus.”
[2253] Words of P. Drews, “Entsprach das Staatskirchentum dem Ideale Luthers?” p. 28.
[2254] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 30, 2, p. 109; Erl. ed., 31, p. 35.
[2255] Ib., Erl. ed., 31, p. 236, “Verantwortung der auffgelegten Auffrur.” See vol. ii., p. 294. Cp. ib., Weim. ed., 19, p. 625; Erl. ed., 22, p. 248, where he says, already in 1526, in the writing “Ob Kriegsleutte,” etc.: “So that I should like to boast that, since the time of the Apostles, the secular sword and authority has never been so clearly and grandly described and extolled as by me, as even my foes must admit.”
[2256] See vol. ii., p. 295, n. 1.