Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . , Genealogy^ 1543. COMMEMORATING THE DEFEAT OF JOHN FREDERICK, APRIL 24, 1547 (medal) 395 THE lords supper (a MEDAL OF 1546) . . 395 DR. JOHN MATTHESIUS 398 From a wood-cut by Tobias Stimmer. MEDAL OF LUTHER 4II From Gretsers De Sancta Cruce. LUDWIG VON SECKENDORF, THE HISTORIAN OF THE REFORMATION 428 From an engraving by Heinzelmann. DUKE ERNEST THE PIOUS, CHAMPION OF THE LUTH-ERAN CAUSE IN THE THIRTY YEARS WAR . 442From an engraving by Jacob Sandrart. The headpieces to the chapters are, with two exceptions, from
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . , Genealogy^ 1543. COMMEMORATING THE DEFEAT OF JOHN FREDERICK, APRIL 24, 1547 (medal) 395 THE lords supper (a MEDAL OF 1546) . . 395 DR. JOHN MATTHESIUS 398 From a wood-cut by Tobias Stimmer. MEDAL OF LUTHER 4II From Gretsers De Sancta Cruce. LUDWIG VON SECKENDORF, THE HISTORIAN OF THE REFORMATION 428 From an engraving by Heinzelmann. DUKE ERNEST THE PIOUS, CHAMPION OF THE LUTH-ERAN CAUSE IN THE THIRTY YEARS WAR . 442From an engraving by Jacob Sandrart. The headpieces to the chapters are, with two exceptions, from theVita D. Martini Lutheri tiummis atque iconibus illustrata, studioM. Christiani Juncker, Franckfort and Leipzig, 1699, containing137 illustrations of medals commemorative of Luther and the Reform-ation. The headpieces to Chapters II and IV of Book I are fromDr. Martin Luihers Andenken in Munzen von M. Heinrich GottliebKreussler, Leipzig, 1818, in which, with illustrations of 195 medals,are found these and several others reproduced in this volume. BOOK ITHE MONK 1483-1517. EI8LEBEN IN LUTHERS TIME. CHAPTER I BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD WHATEVER may have been its defects andabuses, a genuine religious life deeply per-vaded the German people during the Middle great movement known as the Reformationwas not the introduction from without of a newprinciple doing violence to the matured product offorces nurtured throughout its entire existencewithin the Mediaeval Church. Within great institu-tions, as well as within the minds of individuals,principles often coexist in apparent peace, that needonly to be earnestly applied and to be carried totheir necessary conclusions, in order to be foundantagonistic. The break comes when adherents,hitherto dwelling in one camp, divide according totheir convictions of the truth or the error of the oneor the other principle which both have thus far con-fessed in common. Luther was a true son of theChurch. His spiritual life had been enkindled and 3
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