Denmark and Sweden, together with a considerable por. Tion of other states and sovereignties. The princes and sovereigns who protected him, and embraced his tenets, were chiefly swayed. By temporal interest, and that they might have a plausible pretext for seizing ecclesiastical property. Luther died at Islebe, 18th February 1546, at the age of sixty-three. He left a great many writings, in which there is much animation, and some erudition; but throughout the whole, and especially in those published in 1525, he manifests so much pride, vanity, fury, and so much vulgar railing against the Sec of Rome, against the Pope, and other most respectable personages, that it is self-evident the ambition of celebrity, and of being the head of a party, and not the love of truth, impelled him to separate himself from the church.

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