[193] Sermon on Marriage in his “Sermones dominicales,” Leipzig, 1530, Bl. J. 4a, L1. Q 2b. Paulus, ib., p. 741.
[194] Of pilgrimages in particular, Luther is fond of saying, that the monks enjoined them at the expense of the duties of a man’s calling. Cp., for instance, the passage cited above, p. 67, n. 1 (p. 203): “Mater familias … non faciat, quæ in papatu solent, ut discurrat ad templa,” etc. For the passages from Hollen see Paulus, ib., p. 740, and Fl. Landmann, “Das Predigtwesen in Westfalen in der letzten Zeit des MA.,” 1900, p. 179 f.
[195] Janssen, “Hist. of the German People” (Engl. Trans.), 2, p. 9 f. Paulus, ib., p. 749.
[196] Janssen, ib. Paulus, ib., p. 748.
[197] Cp. Paulus, ib., p. 750 ff., and H. Pesch, “Lehrb. der Nationalökonomie,” 2, 1909, p. 726.
[198] Weim. ed., 19, p. 635; Erl. ed., 22, p. 259. “Ob Kriegsleutte auch ynn seligen Stande seyn künden?” 1526.
[199] Ib., 18, p. 394=24², p. 324. “Sendebrieff von dem harten Buchlin widder die Bauren,” 1525.
[200] Ib., 19, p. 659=22, p. 287.
[201] Ib., 10, 2, p. 157=28, p. 200.
[202] Ib., p. 631=255. He speaks before this of nobles, who, after the peasant risings, had gone too far in their revenge.—Luther inveighs in the strongest language against the way in which the nobles oppressed the poor “burghers, unhappy pastors and preachers,” and says: “Here the lion has caught a mouse and fancies he has overcome the dragon. Germany is now full of such nobles and Junkers, who stink out the beer-houses and draw their steel only on the poor, wretched, defenceless people; such are the nobles. Out on such abandoned people! We Germans are indeed swine and savage beasts, and have no noble thoughts or courage in us, as the world too thinks!” This in the Commentary on the Four Psalms of Consolation, 1526. Weim. ed., 19, p. 604 f.; Erl. ed., 38, p. 439 f.