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INDEX

Absolution, papal, 89
Adanius, Adam, letter to, re the Sacrament, 204
Against the Papacy in Rome, founded by the Devil, 449, 457
Agricola, John, of Eisleben, letters to, 73, 149, 150, 152, 158, 182, 235; his Antinomianism denounced by Luther, 355, 391
Albrecht, Archbishop of Mayence, letters to, 17, 89, 313; elsewhere, 11, 322, 335, etc.
Albrecht, Count, of Mansfeld, letters to, 69 (re proceedings at Worms), 386 (interceding for his brother-in-law, Mackerode); elsewhere, 31
Aleander, papal Legate, 61, 364
Alliance, Evangelical, 149
Altenberg, letter to Burgomaster and Town Council of, recommending preachers, 104
Amand, defection of, 133
Amsdorf, Nicolas von, at first Professor in Wittenberg, later Bishop of Naumburg, letters to, 53, 73, 167, 180, 186, 187, 188, 189, 194, 205, 253, 254, 270, 279, 295, 364, 417, 429, 441, 443, 450, 455, 456, 459. 467; elsewhere mentioned, 102, 112; made a Bishop, 408
Anhalt, Princes of, letter to, 279; Prince Joachim of, letters to, 289, 299, 303; letter to Wolfgang of, 397
Antinomians, 356
Aristotle, neglect of the study of, 15
Athanasius, 286
Augsburg, Confession of, 229, 230, 240, 338; Diet of (A.D. 1518), 33, 59 ; Diet of (A.D. 1530), 202, 206, 219, 246; letter to the clergy in, 312
Augustine, St., 14, 15
Augustinians in Erfurt, letter to Order of, 3


Baptism, 296, 304, 337
Barbara, Sigismund's Queen, 62
Baumgartner, Jerome, letter to, 129 (advising him to marry Katherine von Bora); elsewhere, 455; letter to wife of, re her husband's imprisonment, 442
Beier, Leonhardt, letters to, 145, 148, 175
Bercken, Johann, Augustinian Prior in Mainz, letter to, 7
Berndt, Ambrose, letter to, 350 (consoling him on his wife's death)
Beyer, Christian, reads Confession of Augsburg in German before the Emperor, 229, 230
Birds, complaint of the, a jocular reproof to Wolfgang Sieberger, Luther's half-witted servant, 300
Bishops, consecration by, 320; alleged immorality of Roman Catholic, 9, 91
Bora, Katherine von, at first a nun, afterwards wife of Luther, letters to, 196, 209, 240, 241, 246, 252, 276, 299, 342, 388, 389, 390, 460, 469, 470, 471; elsewhere mentioned, 129, 140, 321
Brandenburg, Elector Joachim II. of, letters to, 377, 381, 451; George, Margrave of, 330; widowed Electress of, 437
Brauer, Wolfgang, pastor at Jessen, letter to, 336 (on private communion)
Braun, John, vicar in Eisenach, letters to, 1, 2
Brenz, John, letter to, 196 (praising his exposition of Amos)
Brisger, Eberhardt, letters to, 159, 304, 427
Brismann, John, letter to, 132
Brück, George, Chancellor of Saxony, letters to, 119, 183, 238, 334, 380, 421; elsewhere, 229
Brunswick, Herzogin Elizabeth of, letter to, 361
Bucer, Martin, preacher in Strassburg, letters to, 260, 327, 353, 368
Buchholzer, George, Provost in Berlin, letter to, 378 (on the constitution of the Church); elsewhere, 451
Bugenhagen, also called Johannes Pomeranus, also Pommer, letters to, 271, 285; elsewhere, 109, 112, 132, 183, 287; promotes Reformation in Copenhagen, 353

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