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HEROES OF THE REFORMATION.

I.— Martin Luther (1483-1546). The Hero of the Reformation. By Henry Eyster Jacobs, D.D., LL.D.

II.— Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). The Protestant Preceptor of Germany. By James William Richard, D.D.

III.— Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536). The Humanist in the Service of the Reformation. By Ephraim Emerton, Ph.D.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON

Heroes of the Reformation

EDITED BY

Samuel Macauley Jackson

PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Διαιρέσεις χαρισμάτων, τὸ δὲ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα.

DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT.

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS

PORTRAIT OF ERASMUS BY HOLBEIN. ORIGINAL IN THE LOUVRE.

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM

BY

EPHRAIM EMERTON, Ph.D.

WINN PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

O Erasme Roterodame, wo wiltu bleiben? Sieh, was vermag die ungerecht tyranney der weltlichen gewahlt, der macht der finsternuss? Hör, du ritter Christi, reith hervor neben den herrn Christum, beschüz die wahrheit, erlang der martärer cron.

A. Dürer's Diary, 1521.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1899

Copyright, 1899 BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

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