[42] Ibid. 29.
[43] There are as many blasphemies in the shoemaker's book as there are lines. It smells of shoemaker's wax and filthy blacking. May this intolerable stench be far from us.
[44] Thirty-fourth Epistle, 5.
[45] Thirty-third Epistle.
[46] Thirty-fourth Epistle, 16 and 21.
[47] Weissner's Narrative, Memoirs, p. 49.
[48] Ibid. p. 58.
[49] Wort und Geist, p. 196 seq.
[50] What could be a bolder criticism of the existing Church of his day than this: "In place of the wolf [the Roman Church] there has grown up the fox [the Lutheran Church] another anti-Christ, never a whit better than the first. If he should come to be old enough how he would devour the poor people's hens!"—The Three Principles of the Divine Essence, xviii. 102.
[51] Mysterium magnum, xxvii. 47.