THE BIBLICAL REPOSITORY AND CLASSICAL REVIEW. THIRD SERIES, NO. II.—WHOLE NUMBER LVIII. APRIL, 1845. · 195 By C. E. STOWE, D. D., Professor of Bib. Lit., Lane Sem., Cincinnati. By Rev. SAMUEL T. SPEAR, Pastor of the South Presb. Ch. Brooklyn, N. Y. IV. HOME MISSIONS. BY A MISSIONARY, Rev. THOMAS LIPPINCOTT, Marine Settlement, Ill. V. EXPOSITION OF ROMANS 7: 7-24, By Rev. ANSEL D. EDDY, D. D., Pastor of the First Ch. of Newark, N. J. VIII. ON THE CHANGE OF THE SABBATH FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, BY APOSTOLIC EXAMPLE, 366 By Rev. R. WEISER, Pastor of the Ev. Luth. Church, Bedford, Penn. 2. Taylor's Manual of History. 3. Stanley's Life of Dr. Arnold. 4. Boussingault's Rural Economy. 6. Michelet's History of France. 7. Thirlwall's History of Greece. 8. Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella. 9. Guy's Forensic Medicine. THE BIBLICAL REPOSITORY AND CLASSICAL REVIEW. THIRD SERIES, NO. II.—WHOLE NUMBER LVIII. APRIL, 1845. ARTICLE I. THE LAST DAYS AND DEATH OF LUTHER. By C. E. STOWE, D. D., Professor of Biblical Literature, Lane Seminary, Cincinnati. LUTHER died on the 18th of February, 1546, at the age of sixty-two The immense labor he had undergone for thirty years was too much even for his iron constitution; and for more than a year previous to his death, he suffered much from pains in the head, inflammation of one eye and loss of its sight, swelling of the limbs, the agonizing disease of the stone, together with extreme nervous irritability and depression of spirits. His enemies hoped every day he would die, and in the beginning of 1545, a pamphlet was published at Naples to inform the world that Luther was dead, and it professed to give the particulars of his departure. In this veritable publication it was stated that Luther spent his time in gluttony and drunkenness, and blaspheming the Pope; that, perceiving his end to be near, he commanded his attendants to place him upon an altar and worship him as a god; that he received the sacrament and immediately died; but the consecrated wafer leaped out of his stomach and remained suspended in the air, to the astonishment of all beholders; that when he was buried THIRD SERIES, VOL. I. NO. II. 13 |