The Life and Acts of Martin Luther: Part 1
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Description: ASCII e-text of an extended biography and eulogy of the reformer by his associate and friend Philipp Melanchthon. Translated by T. Frazel and prepared by Steve Sohmer.
The history of the life and acts of Luther (1547-8) Melancthon, Philip. Prepared by Dr. Steve Sohmer 1996. Translated by T.Frazel 1995 c Dr. S.T. Sohmer 1995-6 Library cover: (handwritten) Philip Melancthon The history of the life and acts of Luther 1548 Library plate: (German) Frontispiece: (printed) HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND ACTS OF THE REVEREND MAN DR. MARTIN / Luther, true Doctor of Theology, / a bona fide document / by Philip Melancthon. / Offered by John Policarius Carmina on account of the (?) blessings which God through Luther bestowed upon the whole world. Including several distichs on the Acts of Luther, which were recounted in this same year. 1548. ---------- NOTE: the dedication by Pollicarius (Cygnaeus) is not translated. The text of Melancthon's life begins on Folio Aiiii.recto. ----------- Reverend Martin Luther gave us hope that he would relate the course of his life and the occasions of his struggles, and he would have done so if he had not been called from this mortal life into the everlasting converse of God and the heavenly Church. Both a lucidly written contemplation of his own private life would have been useful, for it was full of Lessons which would have been useful in strengthening the piety in good minds, as well as a recitation of events which he could have made known to posterity about many things, next he would have refuted the slanders of those who, either incited by leading men or others, invent that he destroyed the dignity of the Bishops, or that, he himself inflamed by private lust, broke the bonds of Monastic servitude. He would have published these things, wholly and copiously set forth and commemorated by himself. For even if Evilwishers were to reproach with that common saying, He himself blows his own pipe, nevertheless we know there was so much seriousness in him that he would have related the Account with the utmost fidelity. And many good wise men are still living, to whom it would have been ridiculous for another account to be mixed in, as sometimes happens in poems,
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