[267] Ad. Muller.
[268] Frobenio, ut nullius officinæ plus debeant sacrarum studia literarum. (Erasm. Ep. p. 330.) The study of sacred literature was more indebted to no printing-office than to that of Frobenius.
[269] James of Juterbock, prior of the Carthusians: De septem ecclesiæ statibus opusculum.
[270] A private combination, etc. Strype's Memorials, i. part ii. p. 16.
[271] In evangelicis litteris, sermo ille cœlestis, quondam e corde Patris ad nos profectus. (Erasm. Leoni, Ep. p. 1843) That heavenly word in the Gospel, formerly sent to us from the bosom of the Father.
[272] Opus avidissime rapitur ...... amatur, manibus teritur (Er. Ep. 557.) The work is most eagerly seized.... it is embraced, it is clasped in the hands.
[273] Oblatrabant sycophantæ. (Erasm. Ep. p. 329.) The slanderers howled.
[274] Paraclesis ad lectorem pium. Consolation to the pious reader.
[275] Quam stolide debacchati sunt quidam e suggestis ad populum. (Erasm. Ep. p. 1193.) How stupidly some of them raved to the people out of their pulpits.
[276] Nos clamitans esse grues (cranes) et bestias. (Ibid. p. 914.) Calling out that we are cranes and brutes.