The evangelical Christians, at the sight of this glorious prospect, redoubled their exertions. "Stand fast in the doctrine," said the Elector of Saxony to his councillors.[20] At the same time hawkers in every part of the city were selling Christian pamphlets, short and easy to read, written in Latin and in German, and ornamented with engravings, in which the errors of Rome were vigorously attacked.[21] One of these books was entitled, _The Papacy with its Members painted and described by Doctor Luther_. In it figured the pope, the cardinal, and then all the religious orders, exceeding sixty, each with their costumes and description in verse. Under the picture of one of these orders were the following lines: Greedy priests, see, roll in gold Forgetful of the humble Jesu: under another: We forbid you to behold The Bible, lest it should mislead you![22] and under a third: We can fast and pray the harder With an overflowing larder.[23] [20] Elector Saxoniæ conciliarios suos exhortatus est, in doctrina evangelica firmi.--(Seckend. ii. p. 48.) [21] Circumferebantur item libri Lutherani venales per totam civitatem.--(Cochlœus, p. 138.) [22] Dass die Schrift sie nicht verführe, Durft ihr keinen nich studir.--(L. Opp. xix. p. 536.) [23] Doch war ihr küch nimmer leer.--(Ibid.) "Not one of these orders," said Luther to the reader, "thinks either of faith or charity. This one wears the tonsure, the other a hood; this a cloak, that a robe. One is white, another black, a third gray, and a fourth blue. Here is one holding a looking-glass, there one with a pair of scissors. Each has his playthings......Ah! these are the palmer worms, the locusts, the canker-worms, and the caterpillars which, as Joel saith, have eaten up all the earth."[24] [24] L. Opp. xix. p. 535. Joel i. 4. [Sidenote: THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.] But if Luther employed the scourges of sarcasm, he also blew the trumpet of the prophets; and this he did in a work entitled _The Destruction of Jerusalem_. Shedding tears like Jeremiah, he denounced to the German people a ruin like that of the Holy City, if like it they rejected the Gospel.[25] "God has imparted to us all his treasures," exclaimed he; "he became man, he has served us,[26] he died for us, he has risen again, and he has so opened the gates of heaven, that all may enter......The hour of grace is come......The glad tidings are proclaimed......But where is the city, where is the prince that has received them? They insult the Gospel: they draw the sword, and daringly seize God by the beard.[27]......But wait......He will turn round; with one blow will he break their jaws, and all Germany will be but one wide ruin." [25] Libelli, parvuli quidem mole, sed virulentia perquam grandes, sermo Lutheri Teuthonicus de destructione Jerusalem.--(Cochlœus, p. 138.) [26] Wird Mensch, dienet uns, stirbt fur uns.--(Luth. Opp. xiv. (L.) p. 226.)