. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. part with Luther against Rome and the defenders of the LAZARUS SPENGLER. 251 Papacy. In these matters Luther behaved so bravely, honorably and like a chris-tian, that I think the Romanists would have given many thousand florins if theyhad not summoned him to this place (Worms), and had not seen or heard him. If he had ever turned from the Reformation, now
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. part with Luther against Rome and the defenders of the LAZARUS SPENGLER. 251 Papacy. In these matters Luther behaved so bravely, honorably and like a chris-tian, that I think the Romanists would have given many thousand florins if theyhad not summoned him to this place (Worms), and had not seen or heard him. If he had ever turned from the Reformation, now he was again won over to it,and especially to Luther. He sent his eldest son Lazarus to study at Wittenberg,and to him expressed his renewed confidence in his religious faith in the followingshort but loving and joyful tract: A comforting and christian help and medicinein all tribulations. Nuremberg 1521. It was dedicated to my dear sister Mar-garet, wife of Torgen von Hirnbofen, protector of married women at Hilpoltstein,and fully exemplifies the teachings of the evangelical belief. Still more tinctured with evangelical belief is his anonymous tract which ap-peared at Wittenberg in 1522. The principle which has hitherto governed our. AT THE DIET common Christianity, to which is added the reason and direction, for a christianwalk. It was evidently written to influence his fellow-citizens at the opening ofthe Diet convened at Nuremberg for the spring of 1522. It can well be comparedwith the best product of the pen of any layman, and evidently answered to itspurpose. At the Diet, which only assembled in the autumn of 1522, the numberof those who adhered to the new faith was not small, especially among the princelymembers who for the most part were good Lutherans. At the head of all stoodthe jurist Johann von Schwartzenberg, the most influential member of the Diet,and the Saxon privy councilors Hans von der Plinitz and Philipp von Freilitzach,who, like their sovereign, were on an
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