Life of Luther | Page 2

respecting a Council and Union among the Protestants. The Legate Vergerius, 1535. The Wittenberg Concord, 1536
III. Negotiations respecting a Council and Union among the Protestants (continued). The Meeting at Schmalkald, 1537. Peace with the Swiss.
IV. Other Labours and Proceedings, 1533-39. The Archbishop Albert and Sch?nitz. Agricola
V. Luther and the Progress and Internal Troubles of Protestantism, 1538-41
VI. Luther and the Progress and Internal Troubles of Protestantism (continued), 1541-44
VII. Luther's Later Life; Domestic and Personal
VIII. Luther's Last Year and Death

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
LUTHER. (From a Portrait by Cranach in the Town Church at Weimar)
1. COAT OF ARMS
2. HANS LUTHER
3. MARGARET LUTHER
4. LUTHER'S CELL AT ERFURT
5. STAUPITZ. (From the Portrait in St. Peter's Convent at Salzburg) FACSIMILE FROM LUTHER'S PSALTER, AT WOLFENBUTTEL
6. TITLE AND PREFACE OF PENITENTIAL PSALMS
7. SPALATIN. (From L. Cranach's Portrait)
8. ERASMUS. (From the Portrait by A. D��rer)
9. LEO X. (From his Portrait by Raphael) FACSIMILE OF PLACARD OF INDULGENCES, 1517
10. THE ABCHBISHOP ALBERT. (From D��rer's engraving)
11. TITLE-PAGE OF A PAMPHLET WRITTEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REFORMATION, with an Illustration showing the Sale of Indulgences
12. THE CASTLE CHURCH. (From the Wittenberg Book of Relics, 1509)
13. THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. (From his Portrait by Albert D��rer)
14. DUKE GEORGE OF SAXONY. (From an old woodcut)
15. LUTHER. (From an engraving of Cranach, in 1520)
16. DR. JOHN ECK. (From an old woodcut)
17. MELANCTHON. (From a Portrait by D��rer)
18. LUCAS CRANACH. (From a Portrait by himself)
19. W. PIRKHEIMER. (From a Portrait by Albert D��rer)
20. ULRICH VON HUTTEN. (From an old woodcut)
21. FRANCIS VON SICKINGEN. (From an old engraving)
22. TITLE-PAGE OF THE SECOND EDITION OF LUTHER'S TREATISE TO THE CHRISTIAN NOBILITY OF THE GERMAN NATION
23. TITLE-PAGE, slightly reduced, of the original Tract 'On the Liberty of a Christian Man'
24. CHARLES V. (From an engraving by B. Beham, in 1531)
25. LUTHER. (From an engraving by Cranach, in 1521)
26. LUTHER as "SQUIRE GEORGE." (From a woodcut by Cranach)
27. BUGENHAGEN. (From a picture by Cranach in his album, at Berlin, 1543)
28. M��NZER. (From an old woodcut)
29. LUTHER. (From a Portrait by Cranach in 1525.) At Wittenberg.
30. CATHARINE VON BORA, LUTHER'S WIPE. (From a Portrait by Cranach about 1525.) At Berlin
31. LUTHER'S RING FBOM CATHARINE
32. LUTHER'S DOUBLE RING
33. THE SAXON ELECTORS, FREDERICK THE WISE, JOHN, AND JOHN FREDERICK. (From a Picture by Cranach.) At N��remberg
34. FACSIMILE OF FREDERICK'S SIGNATURE
35. PHILIP OF HESSE. (From a woodcut of Brosamer)
36. LUTHER. (From a Portrait by Cranach in 1528.) At Berlin
37. LUTHER'S WIFE. (From a Portrait by Cranach in 1528.) At Berlin
38. ZWINGLI. (From an old engraving)
39. FACSIMILE OF THE SUPERSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE TO THE MARBURG ARTICLES
40. VEIT DIETRICH, as Pastor of N��remberg. (From an old woodcut)
41. LUTHER'S SEAL. (Taken from letters written in 1517)
42. LUTHER'S COAT OF ARMS. (From old prints)
43. BUTZER. (From the old original woodcut of Beusner)
44. AGRICOLA. (From a miniature Portrait by Cranach, in the University Album at Wittenberg, 1531)
45. JONAS. (From a Portrait by Cranach, in his Album at Berlin, 1543)
46. AMSDORF. (From an old woodcut)
47. LUTHER. (From a Portrait by Cranach, in his Album, at Berlin)
48. WITTENBERG. (From an old engraving)
49. THE "LUTHER-HOUSE" (previously the Convent), before its recent restoration
50. LUTHER'S ROOM
51. LUTHER'S DAUGHTER 'LENE.' (From Cranach's Portrait)
52. DOOR OF LUTHER'S HOUSE AT WITTENBERG
53. MATHESIUS. (From an old woodcut)
54. LUTHER IN 1546. (From a woodcut of Cranach)
55. JONAS' GLASS
56. ADDRESS OF LUTHER'S LETTER OF FEBRUARY 7
57. LUTHER AFTER DEATH. (From a Picture ascribed to Cranach)
58. CAST OF LUTHER AFTER DEATH. (At Halle)
FACSIMILE OF PART OF THE EDICT OF WORMS, 8 MAY (1521), being the title and conclusion, with the signature of the Emperor Charles
TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW, IN THE FIRST EDITION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, 1522. (From the original in the Royal Public Library at St��ttgart)
FACSIMILE OF CONCLUDING PORTION OF LUTHER'S WILL, with the attestations of Melancthon, Crueiger, and Bugenhagen. (At Pesth)
FACSIMILE OF LETTER OF LUTHER TO HIS WIFE, OF FEBRUARY 7, 1546. (At Breslau)

LUTHER'S LIFE.


PART I.
LUTHER'S CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH UP TO HIS ENTERING THE CONVENT.--1483-1505.


CHAPTER I.
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.
On the 10th of November, 1483, their first child was born to a young couple, Hans and Margaret Luder, at Eisleben, in Saxony, where the former earned his living as a miner. That child was Martin Luther.
His parents had shortly before removed thither from M?hra, the old home of his family. This place, called in old records More and M?re, lies among the low hills where the Thuringian chain of wooded heights runs out westwards towards the valley of the Werra, about eight miles south of Eisenach, and four miles north of Salzungen, close to the railway which now connects these two towns. Luther thus comes from the very centre of Germany. The ruler there was the Elector of Saxony.
M?hra was an insignificant village, without even a priest of its own, and with only a chapel affiliated to the church of the neighbouring parish. The population consisted