Annals of the Empire From the Reign of Charlemagne volume 2
Annals of the Empire From the Reign of Charlemagne volume 2
Voltaire
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Luther comes to preach amon-j: them, and the inhabitants here as well as thofe of Saxony and Hefle, become Lutherans. Lutheranlfm fignalifes itfelf by tolerating polygamy. The wife of the landgrave, the daughter of George, indulges her hufband, whom flie could not pleafe, with leave to marry again. The landgrave, being in love with Margaret de Saal, daughter to a Saxon gentleman, propofes the queftion to Luther, Me- lanchton, and Bucer, whether he could in confcience have two wives? and whether... the law of nature could in. This point be reconciled to the chriftian law? The three apoftles, extremely confounded give him privatelytheir permifiion in writing. All hufbands might be per- mitted to do the fame ; for in a cafe of confcience a landgrave cannot be allowed greater privileges than another man. But this example was not followed. The difficulties enfuing from keeping two wives ex- ceeds greatly the difgnft arifing from having only one. VOL. II. G The 146 CHARLES V. The emperor does his beft endeavours to overturn the league of SmalcaU j and is able only to divide from it Albert of Brandenburg firnamed the Alci- biades.
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