nce.

[4] See J. Kessler's _Sabbata_ (1902), p. 150.

[5] L. Keller, _Johann von Staupitz_, p. 207.

[6] _Ibid._ p. 208.

[7] OEcolampadius' Letter to Pirkheimer, April 25, 1525.

[8] Georg Theodor Strobel, _Leben, Schriften und Lehren Muenzers_
(Nuernberg, 1795); J. R. Seidemann, _Thomas Muenzer_ (Dresden, 1842).

[9] A contemporary chronicle calls Denck a scholar, eloquent, modest
and, withal, learned in Hebrew.--Kessler's _Sabbata_, p. 150.

[10] This "Confession" is in the archives of Nuremberg, and has been
extensively used in Keller's _Ein Apostel der Wiedertaeufer_, see
especially pp. 49-62. See also Th. Kolde, _Kirchengeschichtliche
Studien_ (1888), p. 231 f. In this connection much interest attaches
to a passage in a letter which Luther wrote to Johann Brismann,
February 4, 1525. He says: "Satan has carried it so far that in
Nuremberg some persons are denying that Christ is anything, that the
Word of God is anything, that the Eucharist is anything, that
Magistracy is anything. They say that only God is."

[11] See Nicoladoni's _Johannes Buenderlin von Linz_ (Berlin, 1893), p.
114.

[12] Letter of Capita to Zwingli, December 26, 1526.

[13] Kessler says that OEcolampadius in a Christian spirit was with him
at his death. _Op. cit._ p. 151.

[14] The little books of Denck from which I shall extract his teaching
are: (1) _Vom Gesetz Gottes_ ("On the Law of God"), printed without
place or date, but probably published in 1526. I have used the copy in
the Koenigliche Bibliothek in Berlin, sig. Co. 2152. (2) _Was geredet
sey doss die Schrift sagt Gott thue und mache guts und boeses_ ("What
does it mean when the Scripture says God does and works Good and
Evil"), 1526. Copies of this are to be found in the University Library
of Marburg, also in the Koenigliche Bibliothek of Dresden. (3)
_Widerruf_ ("Confession "), 1527. I have used the copy in the
Koenigliche Bibliothek in Dresden sig. Theol. Cathol. 817 (4) _Ordnung
Gottes und der Creaturen Werck_ ("The Divine Plan and the Work of the
Creature"), 1527, in the above library in Dresden. (5) _Wer die
Warheif warlich lieb hat_, etc., no date ("Whoever really loves the
Truth," etc.), and (6) _Von der wahren Liebe_ ("On the True Love"),
1527. This last tract has been republished in America by the
Mennonitische Verlagshandlung, Elkhart, Indiana, 1888.

[15] "To hear the Word of God," he elsewhere says, "means life; to hear
it not means death."--_Ord