The Life of Philip Melanchthon

by Karl Friedrich Ledderhose

Believing that this portraiture of the life of Melanchthon cannot offend the feelings of any Protestant Christian, but that it is calculated to afford instruction and edification to the old and young, the translator humbly trusts, that it may not only make Lutherans, but many other evangelical Christians, better acquainted with the "faith and life" of the faithful friend of Luther, and distinguished author of the Augsburg Confession.

G. F. K.

Lancaster, November, 1854.

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CONTENTS.

	Page
AUTHOR'S PREFACE	[3]
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE	[7]
CHAPTER I.
His Youth	[13]
CHAPTER II.
The University	[ 21]
CHAPTER III.
His Debut in Wittenberg, and at the Leipzig Disputation	[29]
CHAPTER IV.
Building and Fighting	[35]
CHAPTER V.
Melanchthon without Luther	[41]
CHAPTER VI.
Labors, Recreation, and Trouble	[51]
CHAPTER VII.
The War of the Peasants	[59]
CHAPTER VIII.
His Labors for the Church and Schools	[67]
CHAPTER IX.
The Diet of Spire	[75]
CHAPTER X.
The Conference at Marburg	[81]
CHAPTER XI.
The Diet of Augsburg	[89]
CHAPTER XII.
The Position of the Evangelical Party after the Diet of Augsburg	[117]
CHAPTER XIII.
The Kings of France and England, and Melanchthon	[123]
CHAPTER XIV.
The Wittenberg Form of Concord	[131]
CHAPTER XV.
Recreation and Trouble	[139]
CHAPTER XVI.
The Convention at Smalkald	[147]
CHAPTER XVII.
Conflicts in the Evangelical Camp	[153]
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Assembly of the Princes at Frankfort, and the Victories of theReformation	[159]
CHAPTER XIX.
Help in a Dangerous Illness	[167]
CHAPTER XX.
Worms and Ratisbon	[177]
CHAPTER XXI.
Progress of the Reformation	[194]
CHAPTER XXII.
The School of Tribulation	[200]
CHAPTER XXIII.
Worms and Ratisbon again	[ 205]
CHAPTER XXIV.
Luther Dies, and Melanchthon Mourns	[211]
CHAPTER XXV.
War and the Misery of War	[221]
CHAPTER XXVI.
Restoration of the University of Wittenberg	[229]
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Diet of Augsburg and its Interim	[236]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
How the Interim fared in the Electorate of Saxony	[244]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Disputes about the Leipzig Interim	[254]
CHAPTER XXX.
The Conflict with Osiander	[263]
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Changed Attitude of the Elector Maurice	[270]
CHAPTER XXXII.
Doctrinal Controversies, and Attempts to bring about a Union	[278]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Religious Conference at Worms	[297]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Last Years of his Life, real Years of Sorrow	[307]
CHAPTER XXXV.
His Domestic Life	[322]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Something more of Melanchthon's Merits	[335]
CHAPTER XXXVII.
He Dies	[339]

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Life of Melanchthon.