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stmcted CTTdinal Campeggio, an artful man, to i^ipeax as his niincio at we diet of the empire, assembled at Nuiemberg. Campesgio, while cnkftily condemning the vices of^ the inferior tAeigj, eainestly euorted the diet, in a long diacoune, to execute the former decree which had been passed relative to Luther; but his opiiiions were coldly received, and thej separated wttboat enjoining any additional seventies against him or hia party. In the year 1524, he renounced the nsonastic habit, and the year afler married Catherine a Boria, a nun of noble £unily, who k*d SLbjured the vows in 1523, and whom he had imteoded to marry to Glacius, a minister of Orta- mnuaden. This step led to the bitterest oppo- sition, both from his opponents and supporters ; certain, however, of the correct motives of his comdact, he bore their reproaches with his usual fortitDde. She died December 27th, 1662. In the church of Torgua her tombstone is still to be aeen, <m which is her effigy of the natural

In 1546, Luther having gone to his native city of laleben to settle a di»ension among the Counts of Mansfelt, he was seized with inflam- matioii in the stomach, which put an end to his Ufe, in the sixty-third year of his age.

The following brief notices of Lu&er's learned coadjutors in the great work of translating the acnptoies, may not prove unacceptable.

Tlie amiable and learnedly profound Philip Melancthon was born at Bretten, a small town in the palatinate of the Rhine, in 1497, and died at Wittember^, April 19, 1660. His works were eoUected by his son-in-law, Casper Peucer, and printed at Wittemberg in 1601, m 4 vols, folio.

John Bugenhagen was born in Pomeiania Jane 24, 1486. He was the author of Com- maUariet on several parts of the old and new lattanaU, and of some smaller works. He died April 20, 1159.

Jostns Jonas, was the intimate friend of Eras- mus, Luther, and Melancthon. He was born at Northausen, in Thuringia, June 6, 1493. He wrote Aimolationi upon the Acts of the Apot- tUs, printed at Basil, 1626, 8vo.. He was also the anthor of a Defence of the Marriage of Priau, and several other tracts. He died Oc- tober 9, 1666.

Casper Cmciger, whose extensive and multi- fuions learning rendered him the able advocate of the Lutheran doctrines, was a native of Leip- mc, where he was born January 1, 1604. His incessant application and exertions probably hastened his end, since he died in 1648, when only in the forty-fifth year of his age.

Matthew Aurogallus, a native of Bohemia, was a divine of Wittemberg, eminent for his knowledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew tongues. He died in 1643.

George Rorar, or Rorarius, the learned cor- rector of the press at Wittemberg, born October 1, 1492, wasaclergyman of the Lutheran church. He not only carefully guarded against typogra- phical errors, in the e<Stions which he superin- tended, but after the decease of Luther, addad

several marginal notes. He also enlarged Casrar Cmciger's Mition of Luther's Expoiition of St. Peter't epistle, from discourses which he had heard delivered by Luther ; and assisted in edit- ing other works of the |;reat reformer. On the removal of the public bbrarv from Wittemberr to Jena, he was appointed librarian. He died April 24, 1657, in the sixty-fifth yearof his age. He had been amanuensis to Luther.

Luther was likewise occasionally assisted in his translation by John Forster, the author of a valuable Hebrew Lexicon, printed at Basil, in 1657, folio. Forster was lx>ra at Augsbure in 1 495. He taught Hebrew at Wittemberg, where he died in the year 1666.

BemardZiegler, professor of theology at Leip- sic, also contributed his aid. He died in 1556, a^ed sixty. He was the author of some theolo- gical works, now almost forgotten.

1546, July 16. Anne Askew, an accomplished protestant lady, after being put to the torture, was this day burned for heresy. It is remark- able that her husband was accuser, the lord chancellor Wriottesley, extortioner, and sir Mar- tin Bowes, the lord mayor, her incendiary.

1646, August S. Stephen Dolet, an emi- nent latin scholar, poet, orator, and printer, was condemned to the flames as an heretic, or lather, says Niceron, as an atheist, and the sentence was carried into execution upon this day, in the city of Paris. He was first strangled, and afterwards burned; and thus perished, at the age of thirty.«even years, a victim to in- tolerance, protesting in his latter moments, that "his works contained many things which he had never understood." What an emphatic declara- tion! What a warning to the living! He perished on the anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Stephen; and pust before strangulation, is said to have exclaimed: — ^"0, my God, whom I have so often offended, be merciful ; and thou, holy mother, and holy St. Stephen, intercede forme, I pray, at the throne of grace!" The secret history of this blood-thirsty transaction is yet to be revealed. From all that can at present be collected, the jddoes of Dolet were his murderen!

Stephen Dolet was a native of Orleans, or its vicinity, and born about the year 1609. His family was respectable. Some have pretended that he was a natural son of the duke de Valois, afterwards Francis I., but he was never recog- nised as such, and Niceron has observed that the date of that king's birth, 1494, renders such a story improbable. At the age of twelve he was sent to Paris, and Nicolas Beroaldus became his preceptor in rhetoric. Subsequently he studied several years at Padua, under the tuition of Simon Villanovanus : after whose decease he accepted the office of secretary to the French ambassador at Venice.

Having been advised to study jurisprodence at Toulouse, he was chosen orator of a youthful club; and in that character indulged himself in certain caustic reflections on the authorities of Toulouse, calling them ignorant and barbarous.

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