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If fire, said he, is the right cure for heresy, then the Chap. II.} fagot-burners are the most learned doctors on earth. Nor need we study any more: he that has brute force on his side may burn his adversary at the stake. An den Adel, &c., 1520. I will preach the truth, speak the truth, write the truth, but will force the truth on no one; for faith must be accepted willingly and without compulsion. Sieben Predigten, 1521. By reason, too, he desired to restrain arbitrary power. Hiof 1833, XXII. 144. It followed, as the true rule for all Christendom, that the teacher, the minister of the word, should be elected by the congregation itself. This Luther addressed to the emperor and Christian nobles of the German nation in 1520. Three years later, he published proof out of scripture that a Christian congregation ought to have the right to call, induct, and depose teachers. Grund aus der Schrift, dass eine christliche Versammlung Recht haben solle, Lehrer zu berufen, e