. 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). soughtand was admitted to the friendship of Luther. Theresult was that he openly embraced and publiclyprofessed the religious life and the theology of theReformation. When Prince George entered upon the duties ofthe ministry he did so in a spirit of prayerfulness,and he discharged the functions of his holy calling—preaching, reading, writing, and administering 66 George, Prince of Anhalt the sacraments—with the utm
. 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). soughtand was admitted to the friendship of Luther. Theresult was that he openly embraced and publiclyprofessed the religious life and the theology of theReformation. When Prince George entered upon the duties ofthe ministry he did so in a spirit of prayerfulness,and he discharged the functions of his holy calling—preaching, reading, writing, and administering 66 George, Prince of Anhalt the sacraments—with the utmost care and , after the Saxon fashion, a visitation tookplace of his territory, Prince George took an activeand leading part In it In his clerical capacity. Theassociates of the Anhalt ruler and ecclesiastic weresuch men as Luther and Melanchthon, Justus Jonas,Bugenhagius, and Camerarius, with all of whomhe had pleasant and profitable converse regardingspiritual and theological matters. For upwards of six months he suffered from apainful disease, and he died peacefully and happilyat Dessau, on October 17, 1553, at the compara-tively early age of ^1 John Bugenhagen (Jean Bugenhage, Aleman) JOHN BUGENHAGEN was born in theyear 1485. His birthplace was in Pome-rania, a province of Prussia, on the shores ofthe Baltic, and it was owing to that circum-stance that in after-life he was styled He received his university educationat Greifswald, and, when twenty years of age, wasmade Rector of the School at Treptow, a walledtown on the river Rega. At an early period of life Bugenhagen formedacquaintance with the writings of Erasmus, andthereafter with Luthers great treatise, The BabylonianCaptivity of the Church (1520), in which the funda-mental Protestant principle is laid down that every-thing must be brought to the one test of theauthority of Gods Word. That led to a diligentstudy of the Scriptures and of other writings of the 68
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