The law and the gospel must be dis- cerned one from the other. Law and reason are against faith..... 83 What we must do, when our con- Moses, in the mountain, was above the law; so in matters of faith we must have nothing to do with the We must not trust in our strength.. 84 Without God we can do nothing... ib. The difference of the law and the The difference of the law and grace is very easy, and yet are they soon confounded and mixed together.. ib. They who say that the law is neces sary to righteousness, are like to There is no perfect obedience to the law, even in the justified........109 The scripture calleth the teachers of the law, exactors and tyrants, bringing men's souls into spiri- Who maketh Christ a minister of siu ib. Christ hath taken away all evils, and Whatsoever the afflicted conscience desireth, it findeth in Christ abun- dantly ib. ib. 85 Good works are not the cause, but the fruits of righteousness.......... ib. The faithful live not their own life, To live in the faith of the Son of God ib. The difference between the faithful The true manner of justification... ib. Christ first loved us, and not we him.131 The dignity of the price given for us.132 How sects may be withstood ... 133 The law helpeth not to righteousness ib. The law bringeth not the Holy Ghost ib. The appearing of the Holy Ghost...153 Both Jews and Gentiles are justified The Gentiles justified by faith That the Holy Ghost is given by the 154 Reason is delighted with hypocrisy.353 The godly, feeling the corruption of The people of grace... the flesh, must not despair......420 .421 The wisdom of the godly, who only False brethren at the first are friends, but afterwards they become deadly The world embraceth the righteous- The godly must stand fast, that they lose not their liberty in Christ ..370 A remedy against the anguish and ......................................375 Good works are not condemned, but confidence in good works ..... The righteousness of the faithful standeth not in feeling.... ..385 Christ, a gift and example ........393 Luther will be at no unity with the Carnal men understand not faith ib. Carnal men abuse Christian liberty.405 Natural corruption remaineth in the How faith and works are to be taught 412 Flames of carnal lust in St. Jerome 417 The godly feel concupiscence or lust What it is to crucify the flesh. Why God layeth the cross upon the What offences are to be forgiven ..448 How they that are fallen ought to be .456 The authors of sects painted out in The people delighted with novelties 454 What it is for a man to prove his The work of every man's calling...457 In death, and in the day of judgment, other men's praises profit not.. ib. A commandment for the nourishing of the ministers of the word of The ministers of Satan have plenty, but the ministers of Christ do Satan oppresseth the gospel two ways.460 Fulness of God's word bringeth ib. The world loadeth the ministers of Satan with all worldly good things.461 Gentlemen, citizens and husband- Reverence and necessary living due What it is to sow in spirit... We must do good without weari- LIFE ОР MARTIN LUTHER, THE GREAT REFORMER. THE subject of this Memoir was a most wonderful man, whom God raised up in these last ages of the world, to break the chain of superstition and spiritual slavery, which the bishops of Rome and their dependents had, for many centuries, cast over the consciences of all men. He was an instrument truly prepared for this great work; and yet but a mean and obscure monk, to shew us, that HE, who ruleth all things, effected himself the important design, in which the greatest prince upon earth would have undoubtedly failed. The conduct of the dignified clergy throughout all Europe had long given scandal to the world. The bishops were grossly ignorant: they seldom resided in their dioceses, except to riot at high festivals; and all the effect their residence could have, was to corrupt others by their ill example. Nay, some of them could not so much as write, but employed some person, or chaplain, who had attained that accomplishment, to subscribe their names for them. They followed the courts of princes, and aspired to the greatest offices. The abbots and monks were wholly given up to luxury and idleness; and it appeared, by the uninarried state both of the seculars and regulars, that the restraining them from having wives of their own, made them conclude they had a right to all other men's. The inferior clergy were no better; and, not having places of retreat to conceal their vices in, as the monks had, they became more public. In sum, all ranks of churchmen were so universally despised and hated, that the world was very apt to be possessed with prejudice against their doctrines, for the sake of the men whose interest it was to support them. And the worship of God was so defiled with gross superstition, that, without great inquiries, all men were easily convinced that the church stood in great need of a reformation. This was much increased when the books of the fathers began to be read, in which the difference between the former and later ages of the church very evidently appeared. They found, that a blind superstition came first in the room of true piety; and when, by its means, the wealth and interest of the clergy were highly advanced, the Popes had upon that established their tyranny; under which, not only the meaner |