[492] "Deo cessit, et ea quæ vera esse judicavit, deleri non voluit." (Ibid.)
[493] "Rarescebant manus largentium." (Cochlœus, 7.) The hands of contributors grew few.
[494] "Luthero autem contra augebatur auctoritas, favor, fides existimatio, fama; quod tam liber acerque videbatur veritatis assertor." (Ibid.) On the contrary, Luther's authority, influence, credit, reputation, and fame, increased, because he seemed so free and bold an assertor of the truth.
[495] Schröck, K. Gesch. n. d. R. i, p. 156.
[496] "Defensores et patrones etiam potentes quos dictus frater consecutus est." (Raynald, ad an. 1518.)
[497] Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 169.
[498] "Uterus Rebecca est; parvulos in eo collidi necesse est, etiam usque ad periculum matris." (Luth. Ep. i, p. 138.)
[499] Luth. Op. (L.) xvii, p. 173.
[500] Ibid. i, 183, 184; xvii, 171, 172.
[501] "Dictum Lutherum hæreticum per prædictum auditorem jàm declaratum." (Breve Leonis X ad Thomam.)