Nuremberg, pacification of, 110: its favourable effects on the
reformation, 170: reformed state of the place, 179: diet of,
(1543,) 344.

Ecolampadius, on Zuinglius's accompanying the army to battle,
118 his answer to the address of the Waldenses, 143–150:
the chief instrument of the reformation of Basle, 121: his
address to his brother ministers, 122: account of his death,
120-124.

Ordination, not confined by Luther to bishops, 231. See Bishops.
Osiander, of Nuremberg, 305: his objection to a form of abso-
lution used there, 324: his character and peculiar dogma,
324.

Otto Henry, prince palatine, promotes reformation in his terri-
tory, 304, 451: his edict, 305.

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Pacification of Nuremberg, 110.

Paderborn, Lutherans expelled from, 361.

Palatinate of Bavaria, or Upper, reformation of, 304–306: of
the Rhine, or Lower, reformation of, 450.

Palatine, Elector, Lewis, 450: Frederick, 63, 450.

Pallavicini, Cardinal, his testimony to the unalterable character
of popery, 229: his intolerance, 438: on Faber and Eccius,
542-3 his history, xvi.

Palls, consecrated, account of, 353.

Papists, pretending that they had always taught important
protestant doctrines, 322: on attempts at accommodation
with them, 323.

Pastoral authority, Luther on, 155-6.

Paul, Father, on the Elector's attending the Emperor at Mass,
13: his account of Pimpinello's Address, 13, 14; of the
proceedings of the Imperial chamber against the Protestants,
113; of the Pope's disgust at the conduct of Charles V, 114,
115: his free observation on the assumptions of Rome, 116:
on the joy of the Roman Catholics for the death of Zuinglius,
124: his account of Luther's interview with Vergerio, 210—
214: account of him, xv.

-III, Pope, succeeds Clement VII, 157: his policy respect-
ing a council, 157, 193-4: his commission for reformation,
194-200: his remonstrance against the Emperor's indulgence
to the Protestants, 358: his violence against them, 425.
Pellican, Conrad, 168.

Persecution, when it may be resisted, when not, 105: in France,
130, 189: of the Waldenses, 140, 150, 443-449: by George

of Saxony, 168, 169: how far common to the papal church
with other bodies, 228-9.

Perseverance, Final, seems not to be admitted by the Confes-
sion of Augsburg, 44: Arminius found difficulty in rejecting
it, 44: Luther and others upon it, 241.

Pfeffinger, John, pastor of Leipsic, 350.

Pfenningins, D. preacher at Naumburg, 306.

Pflug, Julius, 253, 256: a R. C. collocutor at Ratisbon, 268:
elected bishop of Naumburg, but not admitted, 307: put in
possession, 308: one of the Authors of the Interim, 400.
Philip, Landgrave: see Hesse.

duke of Pomerania, 178, 406.

Pimpinello, a papal nuncio, 7: his address at Augsburg, 13, 14.
Pistorius, pastor of Nidda, a collocutor at Ratisbon, 268, 284:
assisted in the reformation attempted at Cologne, 367.

Planitz, John, a minister of the elector of Saxony, 173.
Pomerania, the duke of, 63: George succeeded by Barnimus
and Philip, 178: reformation of, 177-8: the dukes fined by
the Imperial Chamber, 203: differences respecting ap-
pointing a Bishop of Camin, 406.

Pomeranus, see Bugenhagius.

Pontanus, Gregory, chancellor of Saxony, 5: perhaps the author
of a MS. account of the diet of Augsburg, preserved at Wei-
mar, 17: letter of Luther's to him, 76: his reply to the
Elector of Brandenburg's harsh speech, 82: his judgment on
two schemes of reformation submitted to him, 431-2: his ob-
servations on Luther and Melancthon, 432-3: some account
of his life, 533-537.

Pope, the, charges of the Protestants against, 202-3: disgusted
by the proceedings in Germany, 114, 273, 358: his remon-
strance with the Emperor, 358.

Popery, its character and effects, 227: danger of losing a just
sense of its enormity, 228: its unalterable character, 229:
idolatry of its worship, 297-8, 507: state of things under its
reign, 326, 464.

Possession, demoniacal, Luther's conduct in cases of, 468-470.
Prayers, Luther's, 77, 474, 476, 503: should not be merely
ejaculatory, 503: popish to the saints, 297-8, 507.

Preaching, of the Protestant divines at Augsburg, 14—16: of
the Roman Catholics improved by that of the Protestants,
58: Luther and Bucer on, 216, 558.

Predestination, no article on, in the Confession of Augsburg,
43: difficulties of the Waldenses concerning, 141: their
article corresponds with that of the Synod of Dort, 141-2:
Ecolampadius's reply to them on, 148-9: Luther on, 240-1,

333-4.

Prejudice, instance of the length to which it may go, 125.

Presbyters, esteemed by Luther of one order with bishops, 231:
their ordaining bishops, 307.

Priests, their concubines held to be "of ecclesiastical jurisdic-
tion," 194: Italian, their irreverence, and disbelief of professed
tenets, 231.

Princes, views which it behoves them to take for the general
good, 62, 63.

Prodigies, two described by Luther, 76.

Protestants, origin of the name, 5: their condition at Augsburg
prievously to the diet, 9-13: preaching of their divines
there, 14-16: their situation during the diet, 72-74: they
leave Augsburg, 83: not chargeable with the insurrections in
Germany, 84; or with expelling the monks, 85: principles
on which they were assailed at Augsburg, 92, 93: calumnies
propagated against them, 101, 201: complaints of their cor-
rupt manners, 102, 154-5: their importance in the empire,
111 instances of their extensive charities, 130-1: they re-
fuse the council proposed by pope Paul III, 200-202: their
charges against the pope, 202-3: their disposal of the eccle-
siastical funds, 221: their integrity in this respect, 222: state
of discipline among them, 281-2: Cochlæus's testimony con-
cerning their practices, 301: they are courted by the Emperor,
343: his concessions to them, 345: their anxious circum-
stances, 354: their determination not to acknowledge the
council of Trent, 412-13: they receive information of the de-
signs formed against them, 417: their want of union, 418:
they are convinced of the Emperor's hostile intentions, 424:
their proposals to the diet of Ratisbon, 426-7: they quit the
diet, and prepare for war, 428: they decline to seek alliance
with France and England, 442.

Provence, the Waldenses of, 134-150: the massacre of them,
443-449.

Providence, its dealings, 439, 519.

Prussia, divines of, their sentiments on resistance in defence of
religion, 107 remarkable circumstances by which the coun-
try became Protestant, 259, 264.

Psalms of David, Luther's use of them, 503.

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Ratisbon, Conferences at, between the Roman Catholics and the
Protestants, 268-273, 421, 434-438: book submitted to
the collocutors by the Emperor, 269, 271, 274-276: Diet
of, (1541,) its recess, 273, 289: declaration of the Emperor
annexed to the recess, 274: another diet, (1546,) 425: re-
formation of, 303, 304.

Razeberg, physician to the Elector of Saxony, 474.

Reformation, its origin, preservation, and advancement, 1: con-
duct of its opponents, 1, 2: means by which it was pro-
tected, 2: unity of its doctrine, 39, 40: religious instruction.
diffused by it, 65, 66: its extension, 129-134, 170-183, 244
-266, 300-320, 385-387, 450-452: Pope Paul III's
commission for, 194-200: difference between that proposed.
by him and that sought by Luther, 198: partial, proposed by
George of Saxony, 248; and by the bishop of Misnia, 253:
Luther on the misconduct of the reformed, 325, 326: George
of Anhalt on objections against, 395: schemes of, prepared
by the divines of Wittemberg and Strasburg, 429-434.
Reformers, the, grounds of our obligations to them, 504-507.
Refutation, of the Confession of Augsburg, 50-52: a copy of
it refused, 53: its friends ashamed of it, 96.

Regulation, ecclesiastical, of the Elector of Brandenburg, 261
-264.

Relics, collection of at Halle, 302.

Repentance, on a sufficient degree' of, 33.

Resistance, in defence of religion, Luther on 96, 97, 102-109,
310, 311, 323, 434.

Revenues, ecclesiastical, see Funds.

Reverend: on the title as given to ministers, 232

Rhoda, Paulus à, of Stettin, 178.

Rhodes, conquered by the Turks, 18.

Righteousness of faith, Luther's observations on its importance,
527-8. See Justification.

Robertson, Dr., the historian, his sentiment on the providence
of God visible in the reformation, 2: his account of the incon-
sistent and persecuting conduct of Francis I, 188-191: his
view of Luther's course agrees with that of Dr. Milner, 211:
his representation of Gropper's book, 269: remarks on this
representation, 270 views of the general course of events
from him, 338, &c, 408, &c: remarks upon his representa-
tion of the Elector and the Landgrave, 440, 441 : his character
of Luther, with remarks, 487, &c.

Rome, profligacy of, acknowledged, 197-8: church of, essen-
tially persecuting, 228: its unalterable character, 229: its
idolatry, 297-8, 507. .

Rotenberg, reformation of, 385.

Rotman, Bernard, a preacher at Munster, 380.

Ruthen, reformation of, 385.

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Sacrament, of the Lord's supper, Confession of Augsburg on,
31: controversy concerning, among the reformed, 85, 86:
Bucer's views of, nearest to those of the church of England,

85, 86: Ecolampadius on receiving it among the papists,
144, 145: Concord of Wittemberg respecting, 215: extra-
vagance of Luther's views, 216: on the elevation of the ele-
ments, 512, 513.

Sacramentarians, obnoxious, 86, 100.

Saints, Luther's idea of, 239: use of their history and example
to us, 514-516.

Salvation, in what sense none out of the church, 165.

Salzburg, Matthew Langi, Archbishop of, 7, 10: his observa-
tions on the Confession of Augsburg, 24: his contention with
the Bishop of Augsburg, 26: his hostility to the Protestants,
70: he joins the holy alliance,' 204.

Satan, a gloomy and morose spirit," 66.

Satiety of the word of God, 324.

Saxony Luther's account of the religious state of, 65, 66:
visitation of, 171: ducal, reformation of, 252–257.

Frederick the Wise, Elector of, his remark on confed-
eracies, 235: his reply respecting Erfurt, 348: would put no
restraint on Luther, 522.

John the Constant, Elector of, his arrival at Augsburg,
5: his designs suspected by the Emperor, 6: marshall of the
empire, 8 attends the Emperor at mass, 12: his devout
spirit, 17 refused investiture by the Emperor, 50: leaves
Augsburg, 83: letter of Luther to him, 83: his proposal
respecting the ecclesiastical funds, 85: his death and char-
acter, 126-128.

, John Frederick, Elector of, succeeds his father John,
129 increases the endowment of the university of Wittem-
berg, 171, 172: will not allow Melancthon to go to the king
of France, 190, 191: his firm and pious spirit, 219, 226,
356, 440 his appeal respecting the ecclesiastical funds, 223:
his zealous assistance in the reformation of ducal Saxony,
254, 255: his sentiments at the period of the diet of Ratis-
bon, (1541,) 290: again, (1546,) 440: difference between his
views and those of the Landgrave, 419, 420: comparison of
the two princes, 440: his education of his sons, 512: would
not restrain Luther in what he wrote, 521, 522.

George, Duke of, 6: his persecutions, 168, 169: joins
the holy alliance,' 204: his proposals of a partial reforma-
tion, 248 was himself bred to the church, 248: his corres-
pondence with his brother Henry, 246, 247: his efforts to
prevent reformation after his death, 248: his death, 244, 251.
-, Henry, Duke of, succeeds his brother George, 245: his
previous history, 245-252: his reformation of Freyburg,
245-247; and of ducal Saxony, 252-257: his death,
339 his family, 346.

Maurice, Duke of, succeeds his father Henry, 339: