The Life of Luther With An Account of the Early Progress of the Reformation
The Life of Luther With An Account of the Early Progress of the Reformation
Alexander Bower
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Several of the xSaxon nobles and others having come out to meet him, the whole formed a kind of procession and entered the city at ten in the forenoon. Before Luther reached the inn appointed for his residence, above two thousand persons were assembled ; and, in the course of the day, many of the men of rank connected with the Diet called to have a sight of a stranger of so great celebrity. Next day, 17 April, notice was sent from the emperor to Luther that his presence was required at the Diet... in the afternoon. When the hour (four o'clock) came, the crowd was so great that the only access to the place of audience was through gardens and private houses. Even the roofs are said to have been covered with spectators. An intimation having been privately given to Luther not to speak except in reply, the proceedings commenced on the part of one John Eckius, Official * as it is termed, of the archbishop of Treves, and equally hostile to Luther as his namesake, the disputant. This ora- tor, in an audible voice, first in Latin and next in German, proposed two questions : " Whether Luther avowed himself the author of the books bearing his name?" to a collection of which he ♦ The " Official '* was an officer to whom an ecclesiastial prince, por.
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