HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. BY J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNE, D.D. J'appelle accessoire, l'estat des affaires de ceste vie caduque et transitoire. J'appelle principal le gouvernement spirituel auquel reluit souverainement la providence de Dieu.--THEODORE DE BEZE. By _accessory_ I mean the state of affairs in this fading and transitory life. By _principal_ I mean the spiritual government in which the providence of God is sovereignly displayed. A NEW TRANSLATION: (CONTAINING THE AUTHOR'S LATEST IMPROVEMENTS,) BY HENRY BEVERIDGE, ESQ., ADVOCATE. VOLUME SECOND. PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM COLLINS, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, GLASGOW. PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. 1846. GLASGOW: WILLIAM COLLINS AND CO. PRINTERS. CONTENTS. BOOK FIFTH. CHAP. I. THE DISCUSSION OF LEIPSIC, 1519. PAGE Luther's Dangers--God saves Luther--The Pope sends a Chamberlain--The Chamberlain--Legate's Journey--Briefs of Rome--Circumstances favourable to the Reformation--Miltitz with Spalatin--Tezel's Terror--Caresses of Miltitz--A Recantation demanded--Luther refuses, but offers to be silent--Agreement between Luther and the Nuncio--The Legate's Embrace--Tezel overwhelmed by the Legate--Luther to the Pope--Nature of the Reformation--Luther against Separation--De Vio and Miltitz at Treves--Luther's Cause extends in different Countries--Luther's Writings the commencement of the Reformation. 1 CHAP. II. The War seems ended in Germany--Eck Revives the Contest--Debate between Eck and Carlstadt--The Question of the Pope--Luther Replies--Alarm of Luther's Friends--Luther's Courage--Truth triumphs single-handed--Refusal of Duke Georges--Delight of Mosellanus and Fears of Erasmus. 13 CHAP. III. Arrival of Eck and the Wittembergers--Amsdorff--The Students-- Carlstadt's Accident--Placard--Eck and Luther--Pleissenburg-- Shall Judges be appointed?--Luther objects. 19 CHAP. IV. The Procession--Mass--Mosellanus--Veni, Sancte Spiritus!-- Portraits of Luther and Carlstadt--Doctor Eck--Carlstadt's Books--Merit of Congruity--Natural Powers--Scholastic Distinction--Point where Rome and the Reformation Separate-- Grace gives Man freedom--Carlstadt's Note-Book--Commotion in the Auditory--Melancthon during the Debate--Manœuvres of Eck--Luther Preaches--The Citizens of Leipsic--Quarrels of Students and Quarrels of Teachers. 24 CHAP. V.