Anno 1543.
Germanized.
O LORD, you are righteous, and your word is right [Ps. 119:137].
1. After the wicked papacy had filled heaven and earth with satanic priests, monks, countless servants of Baal, all kinds of idolatry, all kinds of abominations against the doctrine of faith in Christ, against all right worship, publicly against God, God's word, nature, honor and virtue; After also (as is always the wages of idolatry) went ugly, shameful fornication, item much horrible Gomorrah of all shameful fornication, sin, shame and vice, and that even to the highest supremacy,
that even among pagans it would be shameful to call abominations, of which the pope together with his holy cardinals, his tamer monkeys on foundations, and especially in Curia Romana, in his holy court at Rome, is not ashamed to do; yet God has given them there (as Rom. 1. into such hardening and blindness that they have no remorse and sorrow, or repent of their so exceedingly terrible, innumerable vices, but still tickle themselves with it and laugh, as Solomon says, Proverbs 2:14: "Who rejoice in doing evil, and are merry in their evil perverse nature. I still remember it well, about thirty years ago, when Julius II was elected Leo X.
*This writing is found in the so-called Hallische Theil, p. 463 and in the Leipzig edition, Vol. XXI, p. 433. We have taken it from Walch's old edition.
inherited the begun Concilium Lateranense, since at that time in Rome it was already the custom (as otherwise such a satanic abomination may be called a custom) to confer prelatures and prebends to the ganpmedes and the cardinals' chamber boys. Yes, I still remember it, this praiseworthy Roman virtue. And it is indicated to me by quite credible persons that the time was set a notel and bulla, in which it was clearly and impudently set that any Cardinal should not be allowed to have more with him and to nourish him tenderly at the holy Cardinal court than five infamous boys, Catamitos. 1) And the same bull would have gone out to all the world throughout Christendom, adorned and decorated with this beautiful article of the holy Roman papist doctrine, and the most infernal Roman chastity and discipline, if Leo X had not diligently erased the point. For the majority of the Cardinals have no hesitation in believing that such devilishness is everywhere as common as in Rome. However, since the bull had Roman court color, Leo left this beautiful and praiseworthy article that henceforth one should teach and believe that the soul of man is immortal. The Holy Father did not make the laudable and holy article and decree for himself or for his own sake, but wanted to help poor Christianity. For he himself, Leo X, or the Court of Rome, did not believe such things, nor does he believe them, but considers them fools and fools and bon Christian, 2) all who confess and believe them.
2) Now and then a history was written by Pope Leo X. 3) and it was said that when he wanted to amuse himself and to provoke laughter and merriment, he represented two stick fools or parasites who were disputing before his table: whether the soul was immortal? One said yes, the other said da-
1) The same report is also found in the Tischreden, Cap. 27, § 21, paragraph 4 and § 132. Walch, St. Louis Edition, Vol. XXII, 856 and 916.
2) Cf. Tischreden, Cap. 27, § 66. Walch, St. Louis Edition, Vol. XXII, 878.
3) The same narrative is also found in the Interpretation of the First Book of Moses, Walch, St. Louis Edition, Vol. I, 1243, § 9 and in the Table Talks, Cap. 27, § 119, Walch, St. Louis Edition, Vol. XXII, 908.
And when, after the disputation, they both presented their arguments or reasons to the pope, the most holy father, out of his holy Roman spirit, decided this matter with this verdict: Although (he said to the one who said yes) you have brought forward good reasons and cause, I still hold with the one who says, we die like other cattle; for the former makes melancholy and sad, the latter makes a good easy courage.
See and notice, O Christian reader, what doctrine and faith has been publicly established only in Rome. Full of satanic sins, they have repented for and against, as the cancer goes. Well, "Lord, thou art righteous, and thy word is right." "But in all this his wrath is not abated, but his hand is yet stretched out," as Isaiah [9:12] says.
4. After all this, when now all the world, and especially everything that confessed or bore the Christian name, was ashamed of such a Pope, such a Roman church (which called itself Christian), since everyone was tired of seeing, hearing and tolerating such ugly, horrible examples, such unpleasant stink and filth, such Roman Satanic filth of all unclean spirits and devils in hell, and now piteously and miserably sighed from the bottom of his heart that a little reformation might be accepted in the church, at least in such public satanic abominations, monstrous devilish sins, in such beastly filthy vices, obscenities 2c., which are publicly not only against God, but honor, nature, and all (also pagan) discipline; by the laudable Emperor Carl V. and the princes of the empire, much high, vehement, diligent, unceasing persuasion has been made that the pope should hold a concilium; and there it has always been requested and persisted in for more than two and twenty years. But, O Lord God, how did the devil use all his wiles, evil plots, artifices, lies and mischievousness! How have the most holy father and the cardinal cardinals of the most noble emperor hindered divine zeal and Christian conduct with innumerable falsehoods! How have they made all the nation and the whole Christendom suffer and war?
mocked there! And all this so that the stench of the Roman cloaca, the basic soup of all vices, the stinking puddle of all devilish sin and shame, would not be stirred or aroused by the Reformation. "O Lord, thou art just, and thy word is right." "But in all this his wrath departeth not, but his hand is yet stretched out."
(5) Therefore, when they have so often let the divine zeal and diligence of the praiseworthy emperor be in vain, and mocked, they have turned to their fierce zeal, as befits the most holy fathers, to zeal for the honor and welfare of the Roman church, according to the word in the prophet Isaiah [Cap. 59:7], "Their feet are swift to shed blood." For they murdered many innocent men and women by force, and sword, and fire, and all manner of tyrannical ways, thus doing service to God. And this for no other reason than that they, overcome by the public truth, could not suffer anyone to rebel against such abominations, before which the sun would blanch. And the innocent people are the more part of them strangled because they have honored the marriage state (as God's creation and order), but they (although they count marriage among the sacraments, hypocritically) publicly reproach it in truth for an offensive impure state, since they lead this saying from their holy priests: Purify yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord. Therefore, by the serious right judgment of God, for the terrible punishment that they publicly condemn the most holy, pure, undefiled state, they have become satanic fornicators, adulterers, sissies, boy abusers and more of the virtue that mam must be ashamed to call.
Yes, this is what you beautiful Roman saints wanted; continue, dear devil-brothers, these are your virtues, sic itur ad astra. Yes, in abyss of infernal fire. Go, hold fast to your devil, comfort yourselves, it will get better. "In all this God's wrath does not cease, but his hand is still stretched out."
7. after all the sins, disgraces, abominations and vices, when you unholy papists have done, lived, and unlearned with your idol Pabst.
guilty strangled, after all your poison and satanic will, and served the devil after all his pleasure, you still give your cause this praiseworthy resolution, that you fill the world with poisonous blasphemous and shameful books: not that you intend to help your cause, but, when you are overcome in your consciences, that you have contested the public and known truth and sinned against the Holy Spirit, you continue, and knowingly worship the devil. Such a one is also this Cologne, who wrote against Mr. Philippe, Bucer and others, which wretched writing we Christians consider nothing but monkey and child's play, which I laugh at. For you are not men to be pitied, but devils in the flesh, who mock God in heaven, Ps. 2, that they are so afraid, struggling and writhing, and, as Isaiah says Cap. 59, 7: "Their thoughts are trouble, their way is vain destruction and harm," that they maintain their idolatry, which they nevertheless cannot maintain. And so the dawn rises against their will, that the blessed day may dawn and shine forth, before which they tremble. And as it is written in the 112th Psalm [v. 10]: "The wicked will see it, and will be displeased; he will grit his teeth and perish. For that which the wicked would gladly have is lost." "O LORD, thou art righteous, and thy word is right."
We certainly have a certain strong consolation, and we are so afraid of flies and mosquitoes and highly inflated water bladders that we (because they do not want it any other way) wish for nothing higher than that they are always, and nothing higher than such Cologne doctors, write such books, protect such things, lead such a praiseworthy Roman life, and finally die such a death. Let them go, let God, the righteous judge, give them nothing else to remember, to live, to do, to suffer at all times and forever, but as their most holy, praiseworthy Roman holiness is worthy, as their, such high Epicurian wisdom is worthy. For this befits such saints, who want to be higher than the apostles and angels.
9. let her blood be on her head now and forever, from now until forever, amen.
1808 L. V. L. IV, "86. a. Wider die Theologen zu Köln und Löwen. W. XIX, 2251 f. 1809
We are innocent of her blood. We have done everything, spoken enough, shown enough, cried enough, suffered enough and done everything, that we healed this Babylon. But she did not want to be healed. So we let her go, so that
It will be devastated, as Isaiah says, and vultures, field devils, goblins 2c., people like Witzel, Eck, Rotzlöffel, Faber will live in it. These shall be right guests in such a house. "The Lord is right, and his words are right."