Chapter XXIV: Moral Conditions Accompanying the

REFORMATION. PRINCELY PATRONS _pages_ 194-227

1. REPORTS FROM VARIOUS LUTHERAN DISTRICTS.

The Duchy of Saxony; the Electorate of Brandenburg; the
Duchy of Prussia; Würtemberg; Duke Ulrich and Luther;
Blaurer and Schnepf; the sad state of things revealed;
the Landgraviate of Hesse; results of Landgrave
Philip’s bad example _pages_ 194-202

2. AT THE CENTRE OF THE NEW FAITH.

The Electorate of Saxony; the morals of Elector Johann
Frederick; the character of his predecessors; Luther’s
relations with them; the records of the Visitations;
Luther compares himself to Lot dwelling in Sodom _pages_ 202-210

3. LUTHER’S ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN THE DECLINE IN MORALS.

His candid admissions; his varied explanations of the
state of things: The malice of Satan; the apparent
increase of evil due to the bright light of the
Evangel; his seeming lack of success the best proof of
the truth of his mission; Luther on Wittenberg and its
doings _pages_ 210-218

4. A MALADY OF THE AGE: DOUBTS AND MELANCHOLY.

The habitual depression in which zealous promoters
of the Evangel lived; Melanchthon, Spalatin, Jonas,
Camerarius, etc.; the increase in the number of
suicides; expectation of the end of all; the sad case
of Johann Schlaginhaufen _pages_ 218-227