Melanchthon exerted a wide influence in the department of homiletics, and has been regarded as the author, in the Protestant church, of the methodical style of preaching. He himself keeps entirely aloof from all mere dogmatizing or rhetoric in the "Annotationes in Evangelia" (1544), the "Conciones in Evangelium Matthaei" (1558), and in his German sermons prepared for George of Anhalt. He never preached from the pulpit; and his Latin sermons "(Postilla)" were prepared for the Hungarian students at Wittenberg who did not understand German. In this connection may be mentioned also his "Catechesis puerilis" (1532), a religious manual for younger students, and a German catechism (1549), following closely Luther's arrangement.