Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . garded Hutten with favour, possibly with someexpectation that, as the primate of the GermanChurch, the weakening of the Roman influencemight not be to his disadvantage. With unpar-allelled effrontery, Hutten had dedicated to Leo republication of Laurentius Vallas exposure ofthe fraud of the Donation of Constantine, a favouriteauthority for the temporal claims of the Luther read this in February, 1520, he waspleased that evidence was being produced on hisside from such a quarter. The plans were th
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . garded Hutten with favour, possibly with someexpectation that, as the primate of the GermanChurch, the weakening of the Roman influencemight not be to his disadvantage. With unpar-allelled effrontery, Hutten had dedicated to Leo republication of Laurentius Vallas exposure ofthe fraud of the Donation of Constantine, a favouriteauthority for the temporal claims of the Luther read this in February, 1520, he waspleased that evidence was being produced on hisside from such a quarter. The plans were then incontemplation, which afterwards ripened, by whichHutten and Sickingen hoped to overthrow thebishops, as well as the temporal lords, and to estab-lish the German Empire upon such a basis that theEmperor would be supreme. In the very beginningof 1520 Hutten wrote, at the request of Sickingen,to Melanchthon, offering Luther a home at thecastle of Sickingen, in case he found his surround-ings at Wittenberg insecure. While nothing butencouragement could be drawn from such un-. ULRICH VON HUTTEN. FROM A CONTEMPORARY WOOD-CUT 1520] New Allies 155 solicited help, nevertheless Luther soon saw thatthey were contending against the Pope with differ-ent weapons from those which he was employing. I would not, he said, have the Gospel maintainedby violence and bloodshed. By the Word the world hasbeen overcome ; by the Word the Church has been pre-served ; by the Word it will also be restored ; and as Anti-christ has gained his power without violence, so he willfall without violence. The biting sarcasm of Hutten may be contrastedwith Luthers letters, most humble and respectful,until all hope of tolerance for the evangelical faithhad to be abandoned. For the vital questions in-volved in the controversy, the two knights andtheir followers had no sympathy; but would havebeen glad to have used Luther as an instrument toaccomplish their own purposes. Despite all this,however, their writings we
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