Volume 17

Reformation Writings.

CONCORDIA. PUBLISHING HOUSE.

Documents related to the history of the Reformation.

From the years 1538 to 1546. CONCORDIA. PUBLISHING HOUSE.

Foreword.

This seventeenth part of Luther's complete writings contains the conclusion of the documents belonging to the history of the Reformation against the papists from the years 1538 to

Content

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seventeenth part of Luther's complete writings,

which contains the documents on the history of the Reformation from 1538 to 1546, including those concerning the disputes of the Reformed. The sixteenth chapter.

Documents related to the history of the Reformation.

The dispute over Holy Communion, its cause and progress. A. How Ulrich Zwingli is to be regarded as the main author of this dispute.

Index of the writings contained in this volume, to which a date is appended, arranged in chronological order.

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A list of Luther's letters contained in this volume, arranged in chronological order.

A. Against the Papists.

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First Section.

On the Nuremberg Holy League or Liga sancta opposed to the Schmalkaldic League. 1248 The Nuremberg Catholic Counter-Covenant, established by the Roman Imperial and Royal Majesty, a

The second section of the sixteenth chapter.

What the Court of Appeal at Speier has caused the Protestants for complaints. A. What was decided by the Protestant side at the Convention in Brunswick.

First Section.

Of the renewed Schmalkaldic League. 1263 Renewal and extension of the Schmalkaldic League between the Elector John Frederick of Saxony, Philip, Ernst and Francis, Dukes of Brunswic

The second section of the seventeenth chapter.

Of the king's actions in England with the protesting estates. 1267 Philipp Melanchthon's letter to King Henry VIII in England, in which he makes himself known to him and admonishes

The third section of the seventeenth chapter.

Of the actions of King Francis I in France with the Schmalkaldic Covenanters. 1282 Letter of King Francis I of France to the Princes and Estates of the Empire concerning the Concil

First Section.

Of the Convertions at Frankfurt, Schmalkalden and Hagenau. 1288 Some legal scholars and theologians in Wittenberg, especially Luther's, have concerns about the counter-defense that

The second section of the eighteenth chapter.

From the Colloquium at Worms, which was begun in 1540 but not completed. 1306 Concerns raised at the meeting in Worms in 1540 as to how the protesting estates should act in the upc

The third section of the eighteenth chapter.

From the Imperial Diet in Regensburg in 1541 and the colloquium held there. 1358: Emperor Carl V's escort letter for Elector John Frederick of Saxony and Landgrave Philip of Hesse

Section Four of Chapter Eighteen.

Of the Imperial Diet held at Speier in 1542, and of the discussions held there concerning a convenient place for a general assembly, as well as of the announced concilium to Trent.

Section Five of Chapter Eighteen.

Of the imperial diets held again at Speier, also Worms and Regensburg. From Lünig's Imperial Archives, purt. eont., x. 791.

The nineteenth chapter.

Of two campaigns, one undertaken by the Protestants against Duke Henry of Brunswick, the other by Emperor Carl V against the Schmalkaldic allies.

First Section.

From the campaign of the Protestants against Duke Henry of Brunswick. 1435: The well-founded, consistent, substantial, truthful, divine, Christian, prince- and noble-loving duplica

The second section of the nineteenth chapter.

About the discord between the Elector Johann Friedrich of Saxony and Duke Moritz over the city of Würzen, and about the campaign of Emperor Carl V against the Schmalkaldic allies.

The first section.

A. How Ulrich Zwingli is to be regarded as the main author of this dispute. 1. Ulrich Zwingli's letter to Matthäus Alber, preacher at Reutlingen, in which he reports to him that he

The Second Section.

This writing was written by Franciscus Kolb and Berchtold Haller, preachers at Bern, who had also put forward the ten theses for the disputation, in 1528, and printed in quarto at

The third section.

A. From the colloquium at Marburg set up for this purpose in 1529. 20. D. Martin Luther's letter to the Landgrave Philip of Hesse, stating that he would appear at Marburg at his re

The fourth section.

A. Von Dürer's and Capital's correspondence with D. Drück and others, in which they claim that the Oberlanders departed from Luther only in words, but not in things. In Cölestins ü

The fifth section.

A. From the discord over Holy Communion that arose at Frankfurt am Main in 1542 and the articles Bücers. This writing, written by Bucer in Latin, is found in desfen soriptn; German

The sixth section.

A. Of the discord that arose at Particles in Mines between the evangelical preacher Dominicas Beier and some others over the matter of the Law. The following four pieces belong tog