[153] Feuchtwanger, “Jahrb. f. Gesetzgebung,” etc., I., p. 173. He quotes the enthusiastic words written on this occasion by the Wittenberg student Ulscenius: “O factum apostolicum, fervet hodie in Wittenbergensium cordibus Dei et proximi dilectio ardentissima,” etc., and remarks: We may take in conjunction with this statement the libertinism which actually prevailed in the town at the end of 1521.
[154] Cp. below.
[155] Weim. ed., 19, p. 74 ff.; Erl. ed., 22, p. 231.
[156] Ib., 30, 2, p. 584 f.=17², p. 419 f.
[157] See Döllinger, “Die Ref.,” 1, p. 303 ff.
[158] Erl. ed., 14², p. 391. Church Postils.
[159] Ib., p. 389.
[160] Weim. ed., 32, p. 409; Erl. ed., 43, p. 164. Expos. of Matt. vi.
[161] Ib., Erl. ed., 44, p. 356. Sermons on Matt. xviii.-xxiii.—For similar statements see the passage in the last Note and Erl. ed., 23, p. 317; also above, vol. iv., passim. Cp. also Luther’s statements in Janssen, “Hist. of the German People,” xv., p. 465 ff.; Döllinger, “Die Ref.,” 2, p. 215, 306, 349.
[162] Erl. ed., 23, 313 f. “An die Pfarherrn wider den Wucher.” 1539.