sake: but when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.” Mat. 10:18, 19. Luther was not over-awed by such a sight, but behaved with great calmness, decency, and firmness. Two questions were put to him to answer: the first, whether he confessed the books which lay before him to be his writings? and the second, whether he would recant or not? To the first, he prudently replied, that he could not acknowledge any
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