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Updated: May 21, 2025
This was the era of Chivalry Orders, and GELUBDE; time for Bodies of Men uniting themselves by a Sacred Vow, "GELUBDE" which word and thing have passed over to us in a singularly dwindled condition: "CLUB" we now call it; and the vow, if sacred, does not aim very high! Templars and Hospitallers were already famous bodies; the latter now almost a century old.
Walpot's new GELUBDE was of similar intent, only German in kind, the protection, defence and solacement of Pilgrims, with whatever that might involve. The Teutsch Ritters earned character in Palestine, and began to get bequests and recognition; but did not long continue there, like their two rival Orders.
Gelübde, literally "vow." On the mode of baptism see the Treatise on Baptism in this volume. Cf. Small Catechism, Part IV, 4, and Large Catechism, Part IV. Tropffrüchtlein. "Not a benefit received, but a benefit conferred." See p. 309. Called the "still" mass because said without music. See p. 302. Luther at this period still acknowledges seven sacraments.
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