Chapter XXVII: Voices From the Camp of the Defenders of

THE CHURCH _pages_ 351-386

1. LUTHER’S “DEMONIACAL” STORMING. A MAN “POSSESSED.”

Hostile contemporaries ascribe Luther’s ravings to the
devil, others actually hold him to be beset by the
devil; references to his eyes; the idle tale of his
having been begotten of the devil _pages_ 351-359

2. VOICES OF CONVERTS.

Their opinion of Luther and Luther’s opinion of them;
Egranus, Zasius, Wicel and Amerbach _pages_ 360-365

3. LAMENTATIONS OVER THE WOUNDS OF THE CHURCH AND OVER HER
PERSECUTIONS.

The Preface of Cochlæus to his “_Commentaria de actis.
etc., M. L._”; the sermons of Wild, the Mayence
Franciscan, and the complaints laid before the Diet, at
Ratisbon (1541) and Worms (1545) _pages_ 365-369

4. THE LITERARY OPPOSITION.

Was Luther really dragged into controversy by the
tactics of his opponents? A retrospect: The character
of the writings of Tetzel and Prierias; Emser; Eck
and his “Obelisks”; his “_Enchiridion_”; Cochlæus’s
“_Septiceps Lutherus_”; other champions of the Church _pages_ 370-386