[1083] Weim. ed., 30, 3, p. 407; Erl. ed., 63, p. 303 (1531).
[1084] Erl. ed., 49, p. 163 f.
[1085] “Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 1, p. 17.
[1086] “Ecclesiæ ratio diligenter habenda est.” Ib.
[1087] To Melanchthon, July 21, 1530, “Briefwechsel,” 8, p. 128: a bishop has no ecclesiastical authority, no “potestas statuendi quidquam … quia ecclesia est libera et domina.”
[1088] Weim. ed., 6, p. 300 f.; Erl. ed., 27, p. 107. Cp. ib., p. 296 f.=102; the Church is chiefly “inward, spiritual Christianity,” though she, like the soul in the body, has also an external existence of a kind; P. 297 f.=103: She is governed only by Christ. “Who can tell who really believes or not?”
[1089] Weim. ed., 7, p. 719: “Opp. lat. var.,” 5, p. 309 (1521): “Dicet autem, si ecclesia tota est in spiritu et res omnino spiritualis, nemo ergo nosse poterit, ubi sit ulla eius pars in toto orbe.”
[1090] Erl. ed., 25², p. 440 (1539).
[1091] Weim. ed., 8, p. 419; “Opp. lat. var.,” 6, p. 127 (1522): “Quis ecclesiam nobis monstrabit, quum sit occulta in Spiritu et solum credatur? Sicut dicimus: Credo ecclesiam sanctam.”
[1092] “Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 1, p. 20.