Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . him; the same Martin and his ad-herents, accomplices, favourers, and harbourers, werequire according to the tenor of the present letters, andwe admonish, in virtue of the holy obedience [that isdue] and we command by rigidly directing that, underliability of incurring by the deed, each and all thepenalties to be incurred by the very act, that, withinsixty days immediately following (of which twenty for thefirst, twenty for the second, and the remaining twentyfor the third peremptory limit), to be reckoned from the
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . him; the same Martin and his ad-herents, accomplices, favourers, and harbourers, werequire according to the tenor of the present letters, andwe admonish, in virtue of the holy obedience [that isdue] and we command by rigidly directing that, underliability of incurring by the deed, each and all thepenalties to be incurred by the very act, that, withinsixty days immediately following (of which twenty for thefirst, twenty for the second, and the remaining twentyfor the third peremptory limit), to be reckoned from theposting up of the present letters in the below-namedplaces, Martin himself, his accomplices, favourers,adherents, and harbourers aforementioned, altogetherdesist from the above-named errors, and their proclama-tion, publication, assertion, and defence, and from thecirculation of books or writings upon them or any ofthem, and that they burn or cause to be burned all thebooks and writings, containing, in any way, each or allthe aforesaid errors, or any one of them. That Martin. LUDWIQ VON SECKENDORF, THE HISTORIAN OF THE AN ENGRAVING BY HEINZELMANN. Appendix I 429 himself also entirely recall such errors and assertions,and inform us concerning such recall by public docu-ments, in the valid form of law, signed by two prelates,and to be transmitted to us within other sixty days, or inperson if he be willing to come to us (as we would pre-fer) with the aforenamed unlimited safe-conduct, which,from now on, we grant, in order to remove every scrupleof doubt as to his true obedience. [If they do not recant they are to be condemned asheretics and handed over to the secular arm for punish-ment.] But if (as we hope not) the said Martin and the afore-said accomplices, favourers, adherents, and harbourersdo otherwise, or do not fulfil effectually each and alltheir promises within the set limit, in accord with theteaching of the Apostle, who declared that an hereticalman, af
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