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In your voice I shall recognize the voice of Christ directing you and speaking in you. If I have deserved death, I shall not refuse to die. Amen. May He have you too forever in His keeping. Amen. See Introduction, pp. 18, 21. i. e. The papal laws regulating the methods of collectors of church-funds. The Ninety-five Theses. See Tetzel's II. Disputation, Theses 47, 48. Loescher, I, p. 522.
The near approach of Tetzel to Wittenberg roused Luther to more decided action. He now wrote out ninety-five propositions in which he set forth in the strongest language his reasons for opposing and his view of the pernicious effects of Tetzel's doctrine of indulgences. These he nailed to the door of the Castle church of Wittenberg. The effect produced by them was extraordinary.
Cleverness and imposture get on excellently well together imposture and veracity, never. Luther looked at those wares of Tetzel's, and said, 'Your pardons are no pardons at all no letters of credit on heaven, but flash notes of the Bank of Humbug, and you know it. They did know it. The conscience of every man in Europe answered back, that what Luther said was true.
Yet many an one admired the stalwart gait of the old man in his heavy harness. Even Tetzel's dull face was less dull than its wont, and Ursula's eyes sparkled as though her knight had carried off the prize. Presently my grand-uncle saw where I was sitting, and waved and bowed to me as though he had some good tidings to give me.
I was rose and white, and my golden hair was no whit less fine than Ursula Tetzel's; but whoso would care to know what we were to look upon in our youth, let him gaze on our portraits, before which each one of you has stood many a time. But I will leave speaking of such foolish things and come now to the point.
At last it seemed plain that it was Jost Tetzel's part to offer him a home in his great house; nor did he refuse, by reason that Sir Franz von Welemisl was a man of birth and wealth, and his Bohemian and Hungarian kin stood high at the Imperial court.
Whereas the three good gentlemen had considered that all of Jost Tetzel's great possessions must presently fall to his daughter, and that it would be a deed pleasing to God to bring some chastisement on that traitorous quean, they had laid a plot against her father; and it was for that alone that Uncle Christian, who could ill endure the ride in the winter-season, had set forth, with Master Pernhart, for Augsburg.
Brandenburg, in the matter of the Reformation, was at first with Albert of Mainz, Tetzel's friend, on the one side, and Pious George of Anspach, "NIT KOP AB," on the other certainly a divided house.
Either the Pope is supreme or he is not. Luther thought he was. The most that Luther objected to was Tetzel's extreme way of putting the thing. Tetzel was a Dominican; Luther was an Augustinian; and between these two orders was continual friction. Tetzel was working Luther's territory, and Luther told what he thought of him, and issued a challenge to debate him on ninety-five propositions.
Yet many an one admired the stalwart gait of the old man in his heavy harness. Even Tetzel's dull face was less dull than its wont, and Ursula's eyes sparkled as though her knight had carried off the prize. Presently my grand-uncle saw where I was sitting, and waved and bowed to me as though he had some good tidings to give me.
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