"Put off thine own will and there will be no hell." Tauler's sermons, first published 1498, had an immense influence on Luther.

They were later taken up by the Jesuit Canisius who sought by them to purify his church.

[Sidenote: 1543] _The German Theology_ was first published by Luther in 1516, with the statement that save the Bible and St.Augustine's works, he had never met with a book from which he had learned so much of the nature of "God, Christ, man, and all things." But other theologians, both Protestant and Catholic, did not agree with him.

Calvin detected secret and deadly poison in the author's pantheism, and in 1621 the Catholic Church placed his work on the Index.
The Netherlands also produced a school of mystics, later in blooming than that of the Germans and greater in its direct influence.

The earliest of them was John of Ruysbroeck, a man of visions and ecstasies.