[1513] “De Actis,” etc., Moguntiæ, 1549, Preface.
[1514] Letter to Pirkheimer, Sep. 5, 1525. Quoted by Schlecht, “Jahrb.,” ib.
[1515] “De Actis,” etc., p. 318.
[1516] Preface.
[1517] Ib.
[1518] “De Actis,” p. 317.
[1519] “De Actis,” p. 318.
[1520] Janssen, “Hist. of the German People” Engl. Trans, vii., p. 304.
[1521] See above, vol. iv., p. 475. Characteristic of Amsdorf is his assurance in the Preface to vol. i. of the Jena ed. of Luther’s works (1555), that Luther, whose books “could not be paid for with all the world’s goods and gold,” was especially deserving of praise because he had eradicated “the worst and most pernicious heresy that had ever appeared on earth, viz. that good works are necessary for salvation.”
[1522] Kawerau, “RE. f. prot. Th.”³, Art. “Menius.”