CHAPTER XXXI. LUTHER IN HIS DISMAL MOODS, HIS SUPERSTITION AND DELUSIONS _pages_ 225-318 1. HIS PERSISTENT DEPRESSION IN LATER YEARS. PERSECUTION MANIA AND MORBID FANCIES. Weariness and pessimism. Grounds of his low spirits; suspects the Papists; and his friends. His single-handed struggle with the powers of evil _pages_ 225-241 2. LUTHER’S FANATICAL EXPECTATION OF THE END OF THE WORLD. HIS HOPELESS PESSIMISM. Why he was convinced that the end was nigh. Allusions to the end of the world in the Table-Talk _pages_ 241-252 3. MELANCHTHON UNDER THE DOUBLE BURDEN, OF LUTHER’S PERSONALITY AND HIS OWN LIFE’S WORK. Some of Melanchthon’s deliverances. His state of servitude. His last years. His real character. Unfounded tales about him _pages_ 252-275 4. DEMONOLOGY AND DEMONOMANIA. Luther’s devil-lore. On all the evil the devil works in the world. On the devil’s dwelling-place, his shapes and kinds. Witchcraft. Connection of Luther’s devil-mania with his character and doctrine. The best weapons to use against the devil _pages_ 275-305 5. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LUTHER’S JESTS AND SATIRE. His humour in the home and in his writings. He finds relief in it amidst his troubles. Some instances of his jests _pages_ 306-318 CHAPTER XXXII. A LIFE FULL OF STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE _pages_ 319-375 1. ON LUTHER’S “TEMPTATIONS” IN GENERAL. Some characteristic statements concerning his “combats and temptations” _pages_ 319-321 2. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE “TEMPTATIONS.” “Supposing you had to answer for all the souls that perish!” “If you do not penance shall you not likewise perish?” “See how much evil arises from your doctrine!” _pages_ 321-326 3. AN EPISODE. TERRORS OF CONSCIENCE BECOME TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL. Schlaginhaufen falls into a faint at Luther’s house. Luther persuades himself that his remorse of conscience comes from the devil _pages_ 326-330 4. PROGRESS OF HIS MENTAL SUFFERINGS UNTIL THEIR FLOOD-TIDE IN 1527-1528. “What labour did it not cost me ... to denounce the Pope as Antichrist.” The height of the storm; “tossed about between death and hell”; “I seek only for a gracious God.” Luther pens his famous hymn, “A safe stronghold our God is still”; the hymn an echo of his struggles _pages_ 330-345 5. THE TEN YEARS FROM 1528-1538. HOW TO WIN BACK PEACE OF CONSCIENCE. At the Coburg. “I should have died without a struggle.” The waning of the “struggles by day and by night”; thoughts of suicide; how to reach peace _pages_ 346-356 6. LUTHER ON HIS FAITH, HIS DOCTRINE, AND HIS DOUBTS, PARTICULARLY IN HIS LATER YEARS.