. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. he Bible, together with the fame of his eloquence,isoon made Luther kn<5wn to the principal scholars of the age andesteemed as a powerful advocate of the new light which was break- ■ing in upon the world. Great, therefore, was the attention ex-cited by his ninety-five propositions affixed to the church of Wit-tenberg Castle, Octo
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. he Bible, together with the fame of his eloquence,isoon made Luther kn<5wn to the principal scholars of the age andesteemed as a powerful advocate of the new light which was break- ■ing in upon the world. Great, therefore, was the attention ex-cited by his ninety-five propositions affixed to the church of Wit-tenberg Castle, October 31, 1517, and intended to put an end tothe sale of indulgences by the Dominican Tetzel. They were con-demned as heretical and burnt; but neither menaces nor persua-sions could induce him to recant, and he maintained the invalidityof indulgences and denied the papal supremacy. In 1518 Lutherhad a controversy with Dr. Eck, and the same year met the cardi-nal-legate Cajetan at Augsburg. In 1520 Luther and his friendswere excommunicated, and his writings burnt at Rome, Cologne,and Louvain. Indignant at this open act of hostility, Lutherburned the bull of excommunication and the papal called upon by many of the German nobility to defend the. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 6& new doctrine, he presented himself at the Diet of Worms, April,1521, before the emperor and a vast assemblage of the princes andprelates of Germany. He there made an elaborate defence, and con-cluded with these words : Let me, then, be confuted and convincedby the testimony of the Scriptures or by the clearest arguments,otherwise I cannot and will not recant, for it is neither safe nor ex-pedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand; I cannotdo otherwise, so help me God ! Amen. He left Worms, in fact,a conqueror; but it was so manifest that his enemies were deter-mined upon his destruction that the Elector of Saxony conveyedhim to the castle of Wartburg to save his life. In th
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