Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . parate their labours,since in the preparation of most books and papers,and in their decisions on all important questions,they acted with mutual consultation and revision ofeach others work. It was the work of Luther todraw from the Holy Scriptures, under the pressureof severe conflict, the testimony which the particu-lar emergency required. These testimonies cameforth like sparks from the anvil, without regard toany rigid system. Melanchthon gathered them to-gether, reduced them to scientific statement andmethodic
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . parate their labours,since in the preparation of most books and papers,and in their decisions on all important questions,they acted with mutual consultation and revision ofeach others work. It was the work of Luther todraw from the Holy Scriptures, under the pressureof severe conflict, the testimony which the particu-lar emergency required. These testimonies cameforth like sparks from the anvil, without regard toany rigid system. Melanchthon gathered them to-gether, reduced them to scientific statement andmethodical order, enriched them by his more variedreading, and carried to completion much that Lutherhad only suggested. Luther became the represent-ative of the Reformation to the people; Melanchthonto scholars and courts. As mild and tender asLuther was fiery and impetuous, he moderated thespirit of his friend, and gained a hearing for theircommon cause, where Luthers methods were some-times apt only to repell. PHILIP MELANCHTHON. FROM MELANCHTHONS FU NERAL ORATION ON LUTHER, fn^aXtaikVir BIRTH MEDAL. CHAPTER IV BEFORE CAJETAN AT AUGSBURG NOT until the last week in September was Lutherinformed that he was to be heard, iiot inRome, but at Augsburg. After the other businessof the Diet was disposed of, it was proposed to con-sider his case. Responding without delay, he leftWittenberg with Leonard Beyer, who is rememberedas one of the participants in the Heidelberg Con-ference, and made the journey, with the exceptionof a few miles, upon foot. The trying autumnweather, with its raw atmosphere and overcast skies,is particularly mentioned. At Weimar, where theElector, who had already left the Diet, was tarrying,he preached on St. Michaels Day a sermon uponMatt, xviii., i-ii, that surprised his hearers by itsabsence of any allusion to the proper theme of theday, the guardianship of angels, and confined its at-tention to the sin of self-righteousness. There alsohe received through Spa
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