Martin Luther And the Reformation in Germany Until the Close of the Diet of Worm
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The fact that he so constantly recovered the respect and iniiuence which he often temporarily forfeited, testifies to the existence of a certain basal moral soundness in him ; but he was born in a troubled time, and he lacked the steady balance of char- acter wliich alone could have enabled liim to withstand and rule the storm. ^ When Carlstadt returned from Eome in 1516 he foimd Luther's the prevailing influence at Wittenberg, and, still strong in his scholastic preferences, set himself to opp...ose it. ' Carlstadt and Peter Lupinus, " says Luther, - " were, in the beginning of the Gospel, my most violent opponents ; but when I convinced them with disputations, and overcame them with the writings of St. Augustine, and they themselves had read him, they were hotter in the matter than I. " There was a little preliminary skirmish between Lutlier and Carlstadt as to the genuineness of ^Vugustine, Dc vcrd et falsd PoniitciUid, which the latter asserted and the former denied ; but on tlie 2Gth of April 1517, the day on which the rich store of relics in the Ca.
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