[9] Populum a sacris avertebant.—(Cochlœus, p. 138.)
[10] Ministri eorum, equites et stabularii, idiotæ, petulanter jactabant verbum Domini.—(Cochlœus, p. 138.)
[11] Verbum Domini Manet in Æternum.—(Ibid.)
[12] Adversus inveteratos illos et impios usus nitendum esse.—(Seck. ii. p. 46.)
[13] Ut complures allicerentur ad eorum sectam, in ferculis portabantur carnes coctae in diebus jejunii, aperte in conspec nitotius auditorii.—(Cochlœus, p. 138.)
[14] Annales Spalatini.
[15] Germaniae populi Lutherico fermento inescati, et in externis quoque nationibus, gravissimi erant motus.—(Cochlœus, p. 138.)
[16] 1 Samuel ii. 4.
[17] Some historians appear to think that these instructions were communicated in reality at the very opening of the diet. Ranke shows that this was not the case; but adds, that he sees no reason why the commissaries should have thought themselves authorized to make any other proposition. The motives that I have assigned appear to me the true ones. I shall state below why the commissaries returned afterwards to the imperial instructions.
[18] Omnes libros esse comburendos. Sed rejectum est quia sic omnis doctrina et eruditio theologica interitura esset.—(Seckend. ii. p. 45.)