the whole world, to restore him to the nation that is calling for him."[12] One might have said that the pale ghost of the reformer, dragging his chains, was spreading terror around, and calling for vengeance. "Luther's death," exclaimed some, "will cause torrents of blood to be shed."[13] [7] Hic.....invalescit opinio, me esse ab amicis captum e Francia missis. L. Epp. ii. 5. [8] Et inter festinantes cursu equites ipsum pedestrem raptim tractum fuisse ut sanguis e digitis erumperet. Cochlœus, p. 39. [9] Fuit qui testatus sit, visum a se Lutheri cadaver transfossum......Pallavicini, Hist. Conc. Trid. i. 122. [10] Molem vulgi imminentis ferre non possunt. L. Epp. ii. 13. [11] Qui me libero insanierunt, nunc me captivo ita formidant ut incipiant mitigare. Ibid. [12] Nos vitam vix redempturos, nisi accensis candelis undique eum requiramus. Ibid. [13] Gerbelii Ep. in MS. Heckelianis. Lindner, Leb. Luth. p. 244. [Sidenote: ENTHUSIASM.] In no place was there such commotion as in Worms itself; resolute murmurs were heard among both people and princes. Ulrich Hütten and Hermann Busch filled the country with their plaintive strains and songs of battle. Charles V. and the nuncios were publicly accused. The nation took up the cause of the poor monk, who, by the strength of his faith, had become their leader. [Sidenote: MELANCTHON AND LUTHER.] At Wittemberg, his colleagues and friends, and especially Melancthon, were at first sunk in the deepest affliction. Luther had imparted to this young scholar the treasures of that holy theology which had from that time wholly occupied his mind. Luther had given substance and life to that purely intellectual cultivation which Melancthon had brought to Wittemberg. The depth of the reformer's teaching had struck the youthful Hellenist, and the doctor's courage in maintaining the rights of the everlasting Gospel against all human authority had filled him with enthusiasm. He had become a partner in his labours; he had taken up the pen, and with that purity of style which he derived from the study of the ancients, he had successively, and with a hand of power, lowered the authority of the fathers and councils before the sovereign Word of God.