ten originally in Latin, is extant in a
Dutch translation, "Eyn Brieff van Sebastiaen Franck van Weirdt,
geschreven over etlicken jaren in Latijn, tho synen vriendt Johan
Campaen." See Hegler, _op. cit._ pp. 50-53.

[6] _Chronica und Beschreibung der Tuerkey_ (Nurnberg, 1530), K. 3 b.

[7] My copy is the first edition, printed in Strasbourg by Balthasser
Beck, 1531.

[8] _Chronica_, p. 452 b.

[9] These three books were included in a volume entitled _Die vier
kronbuechlein_ (1534).

[10] _Das verbuetschterte Buch_, p. 5.

[11] Pp. 5-8 of the Apologia to _Das verbuetschierte Buch_.

[12] See _Apologia_, p. 2.

[13] _Ibid._ p. 3.

[14] Hegler, _op. cit._ p. 98.

[15] _Die guldin Arch_, Preface 3b-4a.

[16] _Paradoxa_, sec. 101.

[17] _Paradoxa_, sec. 99 and 138.

[18] Franck translated both Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_ and Agrippa's
_Vanity of Arts and Sciences_.

[19] _Moriae Encomion_, p. 149.

[20] _Paradoxa_, Vorrede, sec. 13.

[21] _Moriae Enc._ p. 97b.

[22] _Paradoxa_, sec. 29.

[23] _Moriae Enc._ p. 93a.

[24] _Paradoxa_, sec. 63.

[25] _Moriae Enc._ p. 110. For the testing of the Word, see Hegler, _op.
cit._ pp. 117-119.

[26] _Paradoxa_, Vorrede, sec. 8.

[27] _Paradoxa_, sec. 9.

[28] _Ibid._ sec. 45.

[29] _Das verbuetschierte Buch_, Apology, p. 11.

[30] _Paradoxa_, Vorrede, sec. 8.

[31] This Letter is preserved in J. G. Schellhorn's _Amoenitates
literariae_ (1729), xi. pp. 59-61.

[32] _Paradoxa_, Vorrede, sec. 4.

[33] _Ibid._ sec. 6.

[34] _Ibid._ sec. 2.

[35] See _Das verbuetschierte Buch_, passim.

[36] Quoted from Hegler, _op. cit._ p. 104.

[37] _Das verbuetschierte Buch_, p. 3.

[38] _Paradoxa_, sec. 101.

[39] _Ibid._ sec. 101.

[40] _Paradoxa_, sec. 8.

[41] _Das verbuetschierte Buch_, pp. 6-9, and _Paradoxa_, sec. 41.

[42] _Paradoxa_, sec. 41 and 42.

[43] _Moriae Enc._ p. 111. _Paradoxa_, passim, especially sec. 28-32.
See also Hegler _op. cit._ pp. 127-136.

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CHAPTER V

CASPAR SCHWENCKFELD AND THE REFORMATION OF THE "MIDDLE WAY"[1]

Among all the Reformers of the sixteenth century who worked at the
immense task of recovering, purifying, and restating the Christian
Faith, no one was nobler in life and personality, and no one was more
uncompromisingly dedicated to the mission of bringing into the life of
the people a type of Christianity winnowed clean from the husks of
superstition and tradition and grounded in ethical and