His interest in the promotion of studies; his correspondence; his intimacy with Luther; his disappointment; what he disliked in Luther; he meets with little sympathy in Luther’s circle, though Luther’s personal esteem never fails him; the rumour that he was disposed to return to the Catholic fold; his willingness to find congenial employment away from Wittenberg; his tendency to leave religious affairs in the hands of the State _pages_ 360-378 CHAPTER XIX. LUTHER’S RELATIONS WITH ZWINGLI, CARLSTADT, BUGENHAGEN AND OTHERS _pages_ 379-416 1. ZWINGLI AND THE CONTROVERSY ON THE SUPPER. Earlier relationship between Zwingli and Luther; their divergent opinions on the Eucharist; the Marburg Conference between the two; the power behind this Conference; Luther on Zwingli’s untimely end _pages_ 379-385 2. CARLSTADT. Finding Wittenberg too warm, Carlstadt removes to Orlamünde; his meeting with Luther in the Black Bear Inn at Jena; he goes to Strasburg, and thence to Rothenburg; he is driven by want to accept Luther’s conditions; he breaks his promise, escapes to Switzerland and receives an appointment at Basle. What Luther says of him in the Table-Talk and in his “Widder die hymelischen Propheten”: The defects of Carlstadt’s mission, his violent behaviour, his attachment to the Decalogue, his wrong interpretation of the Supper, his stress on the inward rather than on the outward Word, his unacquaintance with “temptations” _pages_ 385-400 3. JOHANN AGRICOLA, JACOB SCHENK, AND JOHANN EGRANUS. Luther on Agricola. Schenk and the question of the Law; an encounter between Schenk and Luther. Egranus’s dissatisfaction with Luther; Luther’s references to the “brood of Erasmus”; the burden of Egranus’s complaints _pages_ 400-404 4. BUGENHAGEN, JONAS AND OTHERS. Luther’s admiration for Amsdorf and Brenz. Bugenhagen, a legate “_a facie et a corde_”; his antecedents; becomes pastor of Wittenberg; his missionary labours; his intimacy with Luther; his letters from Denmark; a female demoniac. Friendship between Luther and Jonas as attested by the Table-Talk; chief events of Jonas’s life _pages_ 404-416 CHAPTER XX. ATTEMPTS AT UNION IN VIEW OF THE PROPOSED COUNCIL _pages_ 417-449 1. ZÜRICH, MÜNSTER, THE WITTENBERG CONCORD, 1536. The Swiss theologians on Luther and his doctrine. The Anabaptists and Luther’s opinion of their doings at Münster. Pope Paul III. Efforts of the Protestants to reach an understanding among themselves; Martin Bucer; the Wittenberg Concord; attempts to secure the adhesion of the Swiss; Luther pockets his scruples; collapse of the negotiations; Luther’s “Kurtz Bekentnis” _pages_ 417-424 2. EFFORTS IN VIEW OF A COUNCIL. VERGERIO VISITS LUTHER.