On the Restraint of the First Electors of Saxony in Adopting and Establishing Luther's Doctrine, Volume 2

I shall add a passage to be examined with more acute mental agitation, and more suited to the present matter: "Luther put into his Party MANY PRINCES, FOR WHOM THE SPOILS OF ECCLESIASTICAL GOODS WERE A SWEET LURE. THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY WAS THE FIRST WHO EMBRACED HIS NEW SECT." The Palatinate, Hesse, the lands of Hanover, Brandenburg, Swabia, a part of Austria, of Bohemia, of Hungary, all of Silesia, and the North received this new religion. What he expresses here, he repeats in another place: "Luther soon became the head of a party, and as his doctrine stripped the Bishops of their Benefices and the Convents of their riches, the Sovereigns followed this new Converter in a crowd." You have the evident proofs, if I am not mistaken, from which it shines forth what kind of judgment the author of the RERUM BRANDEBURGIKARUM holds concerning the Princes of the Germans, especially the Saxons, who were recalling sacred matters to their original and most chaste integrity.