{"product_id":"2940016927114","title":"The confessional history of the Lutheran church","description":"Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.\u003cbr\u003eThis is an OCR edition with typos.\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from book:\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III. THE JOURNEY TO AUGSBURG. April 3, 1530, Luther, Melanchthon and Jonas left Wittenberg for Torgau. The following day the electoral train, consisting of one hundred and sixty persons, set out for Augsburg. Among these were three princes, four counts and lords, seven noble counsellors, four learned counsellors, seven knights, seventy nobles and five theologians.f The rest were servants. They took with them three boxes containing civil and religious documents, among which, in all probability; were the Marburg Articles and the Schwabach Articles, and one bearing the title: Judgment of the Learned at Wittenberg, which is to be presented to the Emperor in regard to ceremonies and things connected therewith, which is generally supposed to be the Torgau Articles.J The train proceeded via Grimnta. Altenburg and Isen- burg to Weimar, which was reached on Saturday, the 9th, where the Elector was met by a messenger from Niirnberg, who announced that the Emperor was on his way to Germany and would certainly appear at Augsburg.§ On Palm Sunday, Luther preached at Weimar, and the Elector and some of his train partook of the Lord's Supper.jj After resting a couple of days the party turned southward, and, passing through Griifenthal and Neustadtlein, entered Coburg, on the southernmost limit of the Elector's dominion, on Good Friday, April 15th. \"During the Easter festival Luther preached, as he is reported to have done in Weimar and Grafenthal. He made scarcely any reference to questionsof the day. He only declaimed most violently against the fanatics who, if they did not believe in the word of the sacrament, also could not believe on Christ the Son of God; as if it sufficed to warn the Elector once more against any association with the sacramentarians.\" fl Seckendorf, Hist...  ","brand":"Philadelphia : Lutheran Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074529935600,"sku":"2940016927114","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016927114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}