Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . reed be moved by the wind, and thesmoking flax be quenched ! To Michael Dressel, prior in Neustadt, he writes: You are seeking peace, but in the reverse order ; foryou are seeking it as the world, and not as Christ you not know, good father, that God is wonderful inHis people, just because He has placed His peace in themidst of no peace. Peace, therefore, is not to be foundwith the man whom no one disturbs, for this is thepeace of the world, but with him whom all men and allthings disturb, and who, nevert
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . reed be moved by the wind, and thesmoking flax be quenched ! To Michael Dressel, prior in Neustadt, he writes: You are seeking peace, but in the reverse order ; foryou are seeking it as the world, and not as Christ you not know, good father, that God is wonderful inHis people, just because He has placed His peace in themidst of no peace. Peace, therefore, is not to be foundwith the man whom no one disturbs, for this is thepeace of the world, but with him whom all men and allthings disturb, and who, nevertheless, calmly and joy-fully bears all things. With Israel, you are saying : Peace, peace ; and there is no peace. Say rather, withChrist: * Cross, cross ; and there is no cross. For thecross ceases to be a cross as soon as you can joyfullyexclaim : * Blessed Cross, among all trees there is nonelike thee. 1 De Wette, 1:17. ^lb., 20, ?lb., 27. I Imago- erasam-potrroua /AI • AB ? ALBERTO • b\RF RC AU !VTVAAV- EFFIGIEA^ DEL IN I v] IThn-kpeitth TA-^YrrpA>v I A\ATA-AnZEI. ERASMUS. FROM A COPPER ENGRAVING BY ALBERT DURER. I5I71 The Professor 53 The above is a fair specimen of the correspondencethat occupied, as he declares, the most of his a storm was approaching. Current methodsand authorities could not be ignored and discardedin silence. The time came when he was compelledto be their critic. Luthers criticism was the directresult of his positive statement of doctrine. He hadno love of criticism and controversy for their ownsake. The theology of the Scholastics was the re-sult of the effort to force the contents of Revelationinto the moulds of thought of the Aristotelian philo-sophy. In course of time Aristotle afforded notonly the form, but much of the material of thedefinitions and principles of these writers. AsLuther progressed, he was indignant at finding thatmost of his difficulties and perplexities had arisenfrom this source; the teaching of the Church hadbee
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