sion. For it was to be presumed that those most
active in promoting the affair were "more Erasmian than evangelical
(_mehr Erasmisch denn Evangelisch_)." Bretschneider, ii. 909, etc.]

[Footnote 375: See the three letters, and other interesting
correspondence, Bretschneider, ii. 913, etc. However it may have been
with M., _Luther's_ regret at the elector's refusal was of brief
duration. As early as Sept. 1st he wrote characteristically to Justus
Jonas: "Respecting the French envoys, so general a rumor is now in
circulation, originating with most worthy men, that I have ceased to
wish that Philip should go with them. It is suspected that the true
envoys _were murdered on the way, and others sent in their place_(!)
with letters by the papists, to entice Philip out. You know that the
Bishops of Maintz, Luettich, and others, are the worst tools of the
Devil; wherefore I am rather anxious for Philip. I have therefore
written carefully to him. The World is the Devil, and the Devil is the
World." Luther's Works (Ed. Walch), xxi. 1426.]

[Footnote 376: That is, including the apocryphal books.]

[Footnote 377: "Qui est, Sire," they observe with evident amazement at
the bare suggestion, "demander de nous retirer a eux, plus qu'eux se
convertir a l'Eglise." The _articles_ having been submitted through Du
Bellay, August 7, 1535, the Faculty's answer was returned on the 30th of
the same month, accompanied by a more elaborate _Instructio_, the former
in French, the latter in Latin. Both are printed among the _Monumenta_
of Gerdes, 75-78, and 78-86.]

[Footnote 378: Florimond de Raemond (l. vii. c. 4), and others writers
copying from him, represent Tournon as purposely putting himself in the
king's way with an open volume of St. Irenaeus in his hands. Obtaining in
this way his coveted opportunity of portraying the perils arising from
intercourse with heretics, the prelate enforced his precepts by reading
a pretended story related by St. Polycarp, that the Apostle John had on
one occasion hastily left the public bath on perceiving the heretic
Cerinthus within. Soldan (Gesch. des Prot. in Frankreich, i. 163)
sensibly remarks that little account ought to be made of the statements
of a writer who associates Louise de Savoie--in her later days a
notorious enemy of the Reformation, _who had at this time been four
years dead_--- with her daughter Margaret, in "importuning" the king to
invite Melanchthon.]

[Footnote 379: Some years earl