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Gueldres, dutchy, of, taken from the duke of Cleves, 357.
Guise, the son of the duke of, massacres the protestants at
Metz, 311.

Gustavus, Vasa, king of Sweden, his zeal for the reformation,
309.

Guttelius, Caspar, 473.

Haguenau, conferences of, 267.

H

Hailbrun, city of, joins the protestants, 54.

Halle, in Saxony, extraordinary collection of relics there, 302:
reformation of, 302-3; Justus Jonas superintendant of, 472:
Luther there on his way to Eisleben, 472.

-in Suabia, Brentius pastor of, 177, 525.

Haller, Wolfgang, 304.

Hamburg, reformation of, 177: fined by the Imperial Chamber,
203.

Hanover, Philip count of, 7: reformation of, 177.

Hausman, Nicholas, a protestant divine, removed from Zwickau
to Dessau, 131.

Hedio, Caspar, of Strasburg, 7.

Heldingus, made bishop of Mersburg, 400-1: one of the
authors of the Interim, 400.

Heldo, vicechancellor of Charles V., his proceedings in Ger-
many, 200, 203-4.

Heltus, or Heldus, George, tutor of Prince George of Anhalt,
389 letter of Luther on his death, 517.

Henneberg, reformation of, 385: account of the dukes of,
385-387.

Henningus, an eminent lawyer, 533.

Henry VIII, of England, his correspondence with the German
protestants, 101, 184: their opinion on his divorce, 185:
Melancthon's letter to him on the law of the Six Articles,
186-7 Luther's remarks upon him, 186.

Duke of Brunswick, see Brunswick.

Duke of Saxony, see Saxony.

Heretics, ancient, their doctrines revived, and passing for
orthodox, 391-2.

Herman, Archbishop of Cologne, see Cologne.

Hesse, Philip, landgrave of, a protestant, 7: his sudden de-
parture from Augsburg, 53: his league with the Swiss, 99:
his impetuosity, 109: restores Ulric of Würtemberg, 175:
his letter to Joachim II, of Brandenburg, 260: his character
not consistent, 260: his bigamy, 290-294: flattered by the
emperor, 356: deceived by him, 422: difference between his

views and those of the elector of Saxony, 419, 420: the two
princes compared, 440.

Hildesheim, reformation of, 304.

Holstein, reformation of, 183.

Host, attempts to make the protestants at Augsburg attend the
procession of, 10.

Hutten, Maurice, bishop of Aichstadt, 435, 438

I

Idolatry of the church of Rome, 298, 364, 407.

Indulgences, occasion of those which led to the reformation,

353.

Interim, the, 386: persons who composed it, 400.

Italy, desire of reformation there, 173-175: irreverence and
hypocrisy of the priests there, 231: correspondence of Luther
with, 315-320.

J

Jæger, Jerome, of Nordlingen, 179.

Jay, Claudius, a jesuit, 443.

Jews, Luther's controversy with them, 510, 511.
Joachim, see Anhalt and Brandenburg.

John, and John Frederic, see Saxony.

John, George, a Danish reformer, 181.

Jonas, Justus, rector of the university of Wittemberg, 7: letters
of Luther to, 67, 72: promotes the reformation of Halle,
303: becomes superintendant there, 472: his account of the
death of Luther, 474-477: removes to Coburg, 303: his
eloquence, 525: translated Luther's writings, 549, 561: letter
to him, 560.

Jortin, Dr., his account of Erasmus confirms Dr. Milner's
estimate of him, 159.

Judgments of God, F. Paul on considering events as such, 124.
Justification, Confession of Augsburg on, 32: by faith, what
made that doctrine so dear to Luther, 37: importance of the
doctrine, 40-42, 527, 560, 561: distinction to be observed.
concerning, 89: extraordinary tone in which Luther asserts
the doctrine, 98: how only by faith, 89, 99, 254, 261, 262:
confounded with sanctification, 159: forensic sense of the
term, 160 difficulty of adhering to the true doctrine, and
teaching it rightly, 233, 238: excellent statement concerning,
in the elector of Brandenburg's regulation, 261-2: article on,
accorded between the catholics and protestants at Ratisbon,
276-279.

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Latimer, bishop, Melancthon on his imprisonment, 187.
Langer, John, pastor of Coburg, 306.

Langi, cardinal Matthew, see Salzburg.

Latomus, a Waldensian deputy, 135, 150.

Lauterback, pastor of Pirna, 337.

Law, the divine, how "fulfilled" by believers, 238: Luther's
manner of speaking of it, 239, 240: that of the decalogue
remains in force, 240: uses of, under the gospel, 328, 329.
League, of the Roman catholics, 95: of Smalkald, see Smal-
kald.

Leipsic, persecution there, 168: university of, ruined by the
bigotry of duke George, 226, 254: conference of, 248:
Luther preaches there, 255.

Leutkirk, reformation of, 451.
Leyden, John of, 184.

Lindeman, Henry, 255.

Lorrain, duke of, his persecutions, 130: Cardinal of, 311.
Louvain, divines of, their articles, 520: they censure Bossuet,

552.

Lubeck, reformation of, 151.

Lukewarmness, its prevalence, 282-3.

Lunenburg, Ernest and Frances, dukes of, 7.

Luther, his residence at Coburg during the diet of Augsburg,
7, 57: Maimbourg's testimony to his subordination, 15:
composes the articles of Torgau, 19, 20: his joy at the public
reading of the Confession, 23: his employments at Coburg,
57 his Admonition to the Ecclesiastics, 58-64: contrast
of him and Melancthon, 64: his letter to the archbishop of
Mentz, 64: his correspondence, 64-76: his prayers, 77:
would not be considered as the head of a sect, 71: his Warn-
ing to the Germans, 95: on resistance to the emperor, 96,
102-3, 105-6, 310-11, 323, 434: his extraordinary assertion
of the doctrine of justification by faith, 98: his conscientious-
ness in his doctrine of the eucharist, 100: on Zuinglius and
Ecolampadius, 125: a peculiarity of his to be noted, 125-6:
his illness, (1532,) 125: his character of John, elector of
Saxony, 128 on his own times, 153, 154: on Erasmus's

Treatise on Concord, 166: his remark on the anabaptists of
Munster, 184 on Henry VIII, of England, 186: his conver-
sation with Bucer on preaching, 216: his interview with
Vergerio, 207-215: his own account of his course, 211: on
the mass, 220: his illness at Smalkald, (1537,) 223: his
happiness in his marriage, 224: his communications in the
prospect of death, 224: anticipated changes of doctrine,
225: his prayer on leaving Smalkald, 227: on his own times,
235-6: on his expositions of scripture, 243: reference made
to him from the conference at Ratisbon, (1541,) 286: his
sentiments on the proceedings there, 278, 287-289: his
conduct in respect to the bigamy of the landgrave, 292, 294:
his visit to Melancthon under dangerous illness, 295: his
correspondence with Italy, 315-320: daily exercised him-
self on the plain truths of the catechism, 325: his answer to
the charges against the conduct of the protestants, 326:
allowances to be made in reading his writings, 330: his
increasing infirmities, 337, 465, 472: his admonitions to the
elector and Maurice, on their quarrel, 348-9: his committing
every thing to God, 357: eulogium of his translation of the
scriptures, 403: thanks God that he had introduced no new
doctrine, 403: his testimony to Melancthon, 435-6: ac-
count of his latter days, 464, &c.: fictitious story of his
death, 465 his temper and state of mind, 463, 467, 495—
498 quits Wittemberg, but is induced to return, 467: his
conduct in cases of supposed possession, 468-470: different
accounts of the close of his life, 470: authentic account, 471:
his journey to Eisleben, and employments there, 470-472:
his devotions, 474, 476, 503: his death, 475: his funeral,
478-481: sensation produced by his death, 482: his family,
483 his character by Dr. Robertson, 487-492: remarks
upon it, 492-498: tender-hearted, 492-3, 520-1: his
largeness of mind, and moderation, 232, 494, 512-13: his
tolerance, 423, 511: his connexion with Melancthon, 498-
500 his honesty, 500; spirituality and devotedness, 501-
503 his works, 151-156, 231-243, 320-337, 507-531,
558 his modest estimate of himself and of his own writings,
242, 317, 523-527: estimate formed of them by Erasmus
and Melancthon, 525; additional letters of his, 514, 517,
525, 559, 560: no restraint imposed upon him in what he
wrote, 521: Melancthon on his works, 529: his alleged
...intercourse with Satan, 546-551: his habits in private life,
555: his "Table Talk," 563, 564.

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Magdeburg, reformation of, 257, 398-9.

Magnus, duke of Mecklenburg, and bishop of Schwerin, 178.

Maimbourg, his imputation on the protestants at Augsburg, 5,
6 his account of the Emperor's entry at Augsburg, 8; and
of the procession of the host, 11: his remark on the Elector
of Saxony's attending the Emperor at mass, 13: his testi-
mony to the submissiveness of Luther and Melancthon to civil
authority, 15 his indignation at a paper of Luther's, 62:
his misrepresentation respecting ducal Saxony, 252; and
Brandenburg, 265: his sentiment concerning bishops, 362:
his eulogy of Gropper, 376: his account of Luther's death,
470-1.

Major, George, a divine of Wittemberg, 435-6.

Malvenda, the Roman Catholic leader at Ratisbon, (1546,)421:
his doctrine of justification, 436-7 his intercourse with
Diazius, 458-460.

Malvina, 461.

Man, his sinfulness and misery, 236.
Mansfeld, the counts of, 7, 471-2.

Mantua, duke of, objects to a council in that city, 193.
Mary, Virgin, Luther's testimony to the impious and idola-
trous regard paid to her, 59, 507: her freedom from original
sin, 443.

Mass, the Elector of Saxony required to attend the Emperor at,
12: Ecolampadius on its abominations, 144-5: Luther on,
220, 231, 546.

Massacre of the Waldenses, 443–449.

Maurel, a Waldensian minister, his address to Ecolampadius,
135.

Maurice, of Saxony, See Saxony.

"Mecklenburg, duke of, 63: reformation of, 177.

Medler, Nicholas, superintendant of Nuremberg, 306.
Meinier, president of the parliament of Aix, 444, &c.
Melancthon, at the diet of Augsburg, 7: Maimbourg's testimony
to his subordination, 15: composes the Confession of Augs-
burg, 20: his concessions, 55-6: contrasted with Luther,
64: his anxieties at Augsburg, 68-74: his Defence of the
Confession, 80: invited to England by Henry VIII, 185: his
letter on the Law of the Six Articles, 186-7: invited to Paris,
by Francis I, 188, 191-2: his tract on the power of Bishops,
218 made some unauthorized changes in the Confession,
226. on objections to the doctrine of the Trinity, 235: his
dispute with Eckius at Worms, 267: appointed by the Em-
peror a collocutor at Ratisbon, 268: his situation and conduct
there, 277-279, 283-285: his painful accident, with the
interpretation he put upon it, 285: his account of Eckius,
285 his severe illness at Weimar, 295: his will, 296-299:
his real sentiments towards Luther, 298-9: Luther's com-
mendation of his works, 319, 523; and testimony to his

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