The Indulgence granted on behalf of the
building fund; new sources of information;
Albert of Brandenburg obtains the See of
Mayence; his payments to Rome; the Indulgence
granted him for his indemnification;
arrangements made for its preaching; the
pecuniary result a failure _pages_ 347-355
3. THE TRIAL AT AUGSBURG (1518).
The summons. Luther before Cardinal Cajetan
at Augsburg; Letters written from Augsburg;
refuses to recant; his flight; his appeal
to a General Council. Popular works on the
Penitential Psalms, the Our Father, and the Ten
Commandments _pages_ 355-362
4. THE DISPUTATION AT LEIPZIG, 1519. MILTITZ.
QUESTIONABLE REPORTS.
Circumstances of the Disputation. Luther’s
dissatisfaction with the result. Unfortunate
attempts of Miltitz to smooth things down.
Luther’s justification of his polemics. Stories
of his doings and sayings at Dresden; his
sermon before the Court; Emser’s reports of
certain utterances _pages_ 362-373
CHAPTER X. LUTHER’S PROGRESS IN THE NEW TEACHING _pages_ 374-404
1. THE SECOND STAGE OF HIS DEVELOPMENT:
ASSURANCE OF SALVATION.
In the first stage assurance of salvation
through faith alone was yet unknown to him. The
Catholic doctrine on this subject. How Luther
reached his doctrine by the path of despair;
the several steps of his progress from 1516
onwards; the Resolutions; the “pangs of Hell”;
the interview with Cajetan; first clear trace
of the doctrine in his works written in 1519 _pages_ 374-388
2. THE DISCOVERY IN THE MONASTERY TOWER,
1518-19.
The information contained in Luther’s later
_Præfatio_ to be trusted in the main; other
testimonies; his state at the time one of great
anxiety; his terror of God’s justice. The
Gate of Paradise suddenly opened by the text:
“The just man liveth by faith”; where this
revelation was vouchsafed: In the “cloaca” on
the tower; the revelation referred by Luther to
the Holy Ghost; its importance and connection
with Luther’s mysticism _pages_ 388-400
3. LEGENDS. STORM-SIGNALS.
Luther’s faulty recollection in later life
responsible for the rise of legends regarding
his discovery. His statement that he was the
first to interpret Romans i. 17 as speaking
of the justice by which God makes us just.
His “discovery” confirms him in his attitude
towards Rome; the Pope a more dangerous foe of
the German nation than the Turk. The legend
that the German knights and Humanists were
responsible for Luther’s opposition to Rome _pages_ 400-404
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTE.—The following is an alphabetical list of the books, etc.,
referred to in an abbreviated form in the course of our work, the title
under which they are quoted in each case figuring first.
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