Then the Friar said, "Now I see and
know that the Faith and Doctrine of Matthias de Vai is the right,
and that our Papistical Religion is false." And thereupon he
punished and fined the Papist, with his assistants, for wronging De
Vai, in four thousand Hungarian ducats, and compelled him for a
certain time to maintain one hundred soldiers at his own charge; but
he licensed Matthias de Vai openly to preach the Gospel. The Friar
himself, recanting his religion, was converted and became a
Protestant; whereupon Luther said, Never yet would any Papist burn
for religion, but our people go with joy to the fire, as heretofore
hath been well seen on the holy Martyrs.
By what God preserveth his Word.
God will keep his Word, said Luther, through the writing-pen upon
earth; the Divines are the heads or quills of the pens, but the
Lawyers are the stumps. If, now, the world will not keep the heads
and quills-that is, if they will not hear the Divines-then they must
keep the stumps-that is, they must hear the Lawyers, who will teach
them manners.
That in Causes of Religion we must not judge according to human
Wisdom, but according to God's Word.
When the Pope and Emperor, said Luther, cited me to appear at Worms,
Anno Domini 1521, at the Imperial Assembly, they pressed and
earnestly advised me to refer the determining of my cause to his
Imperial Majesty; but I answered the three spiritual Electors,
Maintz, Tryer, and Cologne, and said, "I will rather surrender up to
his Majesty his letters of safe-conduct which he hath given me than
to put this cause to the determining of any human creature
whatsoever.
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