History of the German People At the Close of the Middle Ages volume 6
History of the German People At the Close of the Middle Ages volume 6
Janssen, Johannes, 1821-1891
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75. 320 HISTORY OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE disobedience towards him ; on the contrary, they had been more faithful than other Estates in the discharge of their duties and had borne their share in the national burdens. They could prove before any one that they were innocent of all disobedience, and that his Majesty's forcible and warhke proceedings, resorted to at the instigation of the Roman Antichrist and his unchristian council at Trent, had no other intent than the extirpation of the true Christia...n religion and the divine word, and also the suppression of the rights and liberties of the German nation/ ^ The preachers also were enjoined to use their in- fluence with the people in the spirit of this protest, and to rouse them to enthusiasm for the fight ' against the Roman Antichrist and his supporters, and in favour of the Gospel and the ' word of God/ On July 4 John Bugenhagen, superintendent of Wittenberg, sent orders to the preachers throughout the Electorate of Saxony to instruct the people from the pulpit that ' their enemies were seeking to exter- minate divine truth, to perpetuate open idolatry and debauchery ; ' that they intended ' to lay waste the principahties and towns in which the right doctrine was preached, to massacre numbers of pious and learned people, and to dishonour women/ They were ' intoxicated with the blood of the saints already shed, and they grew more and more bloodthirsty the longer they went on, and were now only panting for further slaughter of true Christian preachers, women, children, and others/ The preachers were ordered to insert the following prayer in the Litany : ' That Thou graciously preserve us from the blasphemies and abominable ^ Hortleder, Rechtmdssigkeit, pp.
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