CHAPTER XXVII. VOICES FROM THE CAMP OF THE DEFENDERS OF

THE CHURCH _pages_ 351-386

1. LUTHER’S “DEMONIACAL” STORMING. A MAN “POSSESSED.”

Hostile contemporaries ascribe Luther’s ravings to the devil, others actually hold him to be beset by the devil; references to his eyes; the idle tale of his having been begotten of the devil _pages_ 351-359

2. VOICES OF CONVERTS.

Their opinion of Luther and Luther’s opinion of them; Egranus, Zasius, Wicel and Amerbach _pages_ 360-365

3. LAMENTATIONS OVER THE WOUNDS OF THE CHURCH AND OVER HER PERSECUTIONS.

The Preface of Cochlæus to his “_Commentaria de actis. etc., M. L._”; the sermons of Wild, the Mayence Franciscan, and the complaints laid before the Diet, at Ratisbon (1541) and Worms (1545) _pages_ 365-369

4. THE LITERARY OPPOSITION.

Was Luther really dragged into controversy by the tactics of his opponents? A retrospect: The character of the writings of Tetzel and Prierias; Emser; Eck and his “Obelisks”; his “_Enchiridion_”; Cochlæus’s “_Septiceps Lutherus_”; other champions of the Church _pages_ 370-386