meeting  of  his  Order  was  held.  The
count  palatine,  to  whom  Luther  had
been  introduced  by  the  elector  of  Sax-
ony, received  him  very  courteously.  In
order  to  rouse  the  spirit  of  the  professors,
he  held  a  public  disputation  on  certain
theses,  called  by  him  paradoxes,  by
which  he  intended  to  make  apparent
the  contrast  of  the  external  view  of  reli-
gion taught  by  the  schoolmen,  and  the
spiritual  and  energetic  view  of  gospel
truth  based  upon  justifying  faith.  It
was  here  that  Bucer,  then  a  Dominican
monk,  but  soon  a  zealous  Reformer  and
controversialist,  and  the  man  who,  after
Calvin,  had  among  foreigners  the  great-
est influence  upon  the  English  Refor-
mation, heard  the  voice  of  the  gospel  in
his  own  heart,  and  resolved  to  confess
aud  preach  it  at  the  university.
