Note 1142 — Chapter XVIII
E. M. Lamond translation
Above, p. 324. He was being attacked on account of the stress he laid on good works, so he wrote to Camerarius in December, 1536, but though so many preachers were now shouting in stentorian tones that it was erroneous to demand works, “posterity will be astonished that an age so mad could ever have been, when such folly met with applause.” Cp. “Pezelii Obiectiones et resp. Melanchthonis,” 5, p. 289, in Döllinger, “Die Reformation,” 1, p. 373.