. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). imed toleration forthe Evangelical faith, declaring that in the matter ofreligion every State shall live, rule, and believe sothat it shall be ready to answer for itself before Godand his Imperial Majesty. Sturm was in Augsburgin 1530. As the Lutheran divines excluded fromtheir Conferences and Confession the Commissionersfrom the four Imperial cities of Strasburg, Constance,Memmingen, and Lindau, these Commissioner
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). imed toleration forthe Evangelical faith, declaring that in the matter ofreligion every State shall live, rule, and believe sothat it shall be ready to answer for itself before Godand his Imperial Majesty. Sturm was in Augsburgin 1530. As the Lutheran divines excluded fromtheir Conferences and Confession the Commissionersfrom the four Imperial cities of Strasburg, Constance,Memmingen, and Lindau, these Commissionershanded to the Emperor Charles a Confession oftheir own. This symbol, generally styled the Tet-rapolitan from the four cities already named, is alsocalled the Strasburg Confession, partly because Stras-burg ranks first in the naming of the cities, partlybecause Martin Bucer, who prepared it, was ministerof that city. Jacobus Sturm signed the Tetrapolitan documentas Commissioner from the first of the four Imperialcities. He died in 1553, held in the esteem and affec-tionate regard of all who could appreciate the worthand the services of a Christian citizen and magis-trate. 82. MARTIN BUCER. Martin Bucer (Martinus Bucerus) THE baptismal name of this theologian ofSouth Germany was Kuhorn. When of anage to act for himself in such a matter, hemarked his appreciation of the purifyingnature of the Reforming movement, in whichhe was destined to become a leader, by subscribinghimself, m German, Butzer—/.^., Cleanser—and thengivmg it the Latin form Bucerus. He was born atSchelestadt, a town of Alsace, near Strasburg, in1491- At the early age of seven Martin Kuhorntook the religious habit of St. Dominic, and at six-teen he entered a Dominican monastery. Commend-mg himself to his monastic superiors by his studioushabits, his gift of speech, and his musical voice thenovice was sent to Heidelberg University to studyphilosophy, Hebrew, and theology. At Heidelbergthere arrived, in 1518, an
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