Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . n, what-ever might be burnt, simply because they had not themayors authority, or because the fire perhaps broke outat the mayors house ? Is not every citizen bound inthis case to rouse and call the rest? How much moreshould this be done in the spiritual city of Christ, eitherat the Popes government or wherever it may be ! Thelike happens if an enemy attacks a town. The first torouse up the rest earns glory and thanks. With these principles fixed, he proceeds to theconsideration of the matters that should be treate
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . n, what-ever might be burnt, simply because they had not themayors authority, or because the fire perhaps broke outat the mayors house ? Is not every citizen bound inthis case to rouse and call the rest? How much moreshould this be done in the spiritual city of Christ, eitherat the Popes government or wherever it may be ! Thelike happens if an enemy attacks a town. The first torouse up the rest earns glory and thanks. With these principles fixed, he proceeds to theconsideration of the matters that should be treatedin such a council, and then offers twenty-sevenarticles concerning the Reformation of the ChristianEstate. From beginning to end it is a scathingdenunciation of the Papacy, characterised by manyeloquent passages and epigrammatic statements. God cares not for much prayer, but for goodprayer. It is a greater sin to silence Gods wordand service, than if we were to kill twenty popes atonce. If you try to ride to heaven on the Popeswax and parchment, your carriage will soon break. TITLE-PAQE OF FIRST EDITION OF LUTHERS ADDRESS TO THE GERMANNOBILITY, 1520.(slightly reduced.) 1520] New Allies i6i down, and you will fall into Hell. ** In baptism,you joined a fraternity, of which Christ, the angels,the saints, and all Christians are members; be trueto this, and satisfy it, and you will have fraternitiesenough. We should overcome heretics withbooks, not with fire, as the old Fathers did. There is nothing more devilishly mischievous thanan unreformed university. I greatly fear thehigh schools [universities] are nothing but greatgates of Hell, unless they diligently study the HolyScriptures and teach them to the young is not the number of books that make thelearned man, nor much reading; but good booksoften read, however few, make a man learned in theScriptures and pious. If we read nothing butthe Fathers and never get from them into theScriptures, it is as if one should be gazi
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