By Martin Luther

The Bondage of the desire is prime to an knowing of the first doctrines of the Reformation. In those pages, Luther provides vast remedy to what he observed because the middle of the gospel. unfastened will used to be no educational query to Luther; the complete gospel of the grace of God, he believed, used to be certain up with it and stood or fell in response to the way in which one made up our minds it. Luther affirms our overall lack of ability to save Read more...

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Thus also the illiterate attribute it to learning, that, by its flourishing, their ignorance becomes known. This is the return we make for the word of life and salvation! — And what fear must we suppose there was among the Jews, when the Gospel freed all from the law of Moses? What occasion did not this great liberty seem to give to evil men? But yet, the Gospel was not, on that account, taken away; but the impious were left, and it was preached to the pious, that they might not use their liberty to an occasion of the flesh.

Moreover, not content with this, you call him who should desire to know such things, irreligious, curious, and vain; but him who should disregard them, religious, pious, and sober. What else do these words imply, than that Christians are irreligious, curious, and vain? And that Christianity is a thing of nought, vain, foolish, and plainly impious? Here again, therefore, while you wish by all means to deter us from temerity, running, as fools always do, directly into the contrary, you teach nothing but the greatest temerity, impiety, and perdition.

That they, from their depravity, abuse the preaching of a free confession and of satisfaction, to an occasion of the flesh. ’ — O memorable and excellent speech! Is this teaching theology? To bind souls by laws, and, (as Ezekiel saith, xiii. 18,) to hunt them to death, which are not bound by God! Why, by this speech you bring upon us the universal tyranny of the laws of the Popes, as useful and wholesome; because, that by them also the depravity of the commonalty is restrained. But I will not inveigh against this place as it deserves.

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