_Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 45. Broderichus, _Clades Mohacziana_, apud Schardium, p. 558. Ranke, ii. p. 409. Footnote 544: _Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 47. Footnote 545: ‘Wobei Tödtenblässe sein Angesicht überzog,’ &c.—_Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 47. Footnote 546: _Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 48. Footnote 547: These sentences are taken from Luther’s Commentary on Psalms xxxvii., lxii., xciv., and cix. See the Letter and the Commentary, Luther, _Opp._ Leipsic, vol. v. pp. 609-640. Footnote 548: ‘Herr Jesu Christ, Du wirst mir stehn zur Seiten, Und sehen auf das Unglück mein, Als wäre es dein, Wenn’s wider mich wird streiten.’ Bunsen, _Evang. Gesang- und Gebet-Buch_, p. 290. Rambach, _Anthologie_, ii. p. 78. (Rambach supposes the hymn to have been composed for the queen by Luther at the same time as the exposition of the four psalms.—Editor.) Footnote 549: _Matricula Plebanorum_, xxiv. p. 463. _Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 51. Footnote 550: See First Series, vol. iv. book xiii. chap. ix. Footnote 551: Ferdinand’s Mandat. Luther, _Opp._ xix. p. 596. _Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, pp. 51-53. CHAPTER III. DEVAY AND HIS FELLOW-WORKERS. (1527-1538.) The triumph of the Reformation in Hungary was to be slow and difficult, or rather it was never to be complete. The two kings, who after the death of Louis II. shared the kingdom between them, fancied as we have seen, that they should ensure victory to themselves by giving up the Reformation to the Roman clergy. But the only result of persecution was to advance reform. Many of the evangelical Christians at this time quitted Hungary to go to Wittenberg. ‘A great number of Hungarians,’ said Luther on May 7, 1528, ‘are arriving here from all quarters, expelled from Ferdinand’s dominions; and as Christ was poor, they imitate Him in His humble poverty.’[552] The reformer welcomed, consoled, instructed, and strengthened them. ‘If Satan employs cruelty,’ he said to one of them, ‘he acts his own part; Scripture everywhere teaches us that this is what we are to expect from him. But for thee, be a brave man, pray and fight in the spirit and the word, against him.[553] He who reigns in us is mighty.’ Luther even called to him the Christians of Hungary. He wrote to Leonard Beier, who was in the states of Ferdinand—‘If thou art expelled come hither. We offer thee hospitality and all that Christ gives us.’ The reformer’s charity won hearts to the Reformation. These men, on their return to their own land, became so many missionaries. [Sidenote: Mathias Biro Devay.]