[1577] May 20, 1520, “Hist. Jahrb.,” 15, 1894, p. 378 (ed. J. Fijalyek). On the last sentence cp. John viii. 21 and Ez. xxxvi. 25.
[1578] “An den grossmechtigsten.… Adel tütscher Nation,” etc., Strasburg, 1520 (anonymously published), Bl. K 1´. Murner attributes the contempt for the Ban to its abuse (D 4) and says, it would be better were some of the precepts and some of the numerous Church holidays done away with (H 1´).
[1579] “De actis et scriptis Lutheri,” p. 29. He adds, however, that the good was often all sham.
[1580] Ib., p. 55 sqq. German ed., Dillingen, 1611, p. 109 ff. Cp. “Lutheri Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 2, p. 146. “Nunc omnes artes illustratæ florescunt. So too God has now made us a present of the press, præcipue ad premendum papam.” Cp. Janssen, “Hist. of the German People” (Engl. Trans.), 14, pp. 498-533.
[1581] W. Friedensburg in the art. “Fortschritte in Kenntnis und Verständnis der Reformationsgesch.” (“Schriften des Vereins f. RG.,” No. 100, 1910, pp. 1-59), p. 40, where it is true, he says of Cochlæus that “Vanity as a rule played a great part in his character.”
[1582] “Vormeldunge der Unwarheit Lutherscher Clage,” Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, 1532.
[1583] Cp. for instance Falk, “Pfarramtliche Aufzeichnungen des Florentius Diel zu St. Christoph in Mainz, 1491-1518” (“Erläuterungen u. Erg. zu Janssen,” vol. iv., Hft. 3). Falk, ib., p. 5: “The family was at that time responsible for the religious instruction of the young.” In many of the schools the Catechism was taught, but the schools were not as yet generally attended.
[1584] Otto, “Joh. Cochläus,” Breslau, 1874, p. 3.
[1585] He only advises a “consilium plebani” when the result of the instructions to the Communicants was doubtful. “Sermones,” Hagenau, 1510, “De festivitatibus Christi,” xix., “on Maundy Thursday,” “on preparation for communion.”
[1586] In the “Deudsche Messe,” Weim. ed., 19, p. 76; Erl, ed., 22, p. 232. Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 50.