Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-willT. Bensley, 1823 - 402 pages |
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Page 122
... endeavour is , which that first probable opinion ' leaves it . It cannot be a good desire or a good endeavour , because it cannot will good , as the opinion affirms , and as you grant . Therefore , it is an evil desire and an evil endeavour ...
... endeavour is , which that first probable opinion ' leaves it . It cannot be a good desire or a good endeavour , because it cannot will good , as the opinion affirms , and as you grant . Therefore , it is an evil desire and an evil endeavour ...
Page 123
... endeavour which are left ? Where will be that power of applying itself to those things which pertain unto eternal salvation ? ' For that power of ap- plying itself unto salvation , cannot be a mere willing , unless the salvation itself ...
... endeavour which are left ? Where will be that power of applying itself to those things which pertain unto eternal salvation ? ' For that power of ap- plying itself unto salvation , cannot be a mere willing , unless the salvation itself ...
Page 134
... endeavour to be in the man , for he would not then have escaped the suspi- cion of deriding him , unless he had signified his having the full power of keeping . 6 But however , let us suppose that that desire and endeavour of Free ...
... endeavour to be in the man , for he would not then have escaped the suspi- cion of deriding him , unless he had signified his having the full power of keeping . 6 But however , let us suppose that that desire and endeavour of Free ...
Page 138
... endeavour separate from its own power ? Nay , on the contrary , I have proved , by an assertion sufficiently forcible , that either man can choose life and keep the commandment as it is commanded , or Moses is a ridiculous law - giver ...
... endeavour separate from its own power ? Nay , on the contrary , I have proved , by an assertion sufficiently forcible , that either man can choose life and keep the commandment as it is commanded , or Moses is a ridiculous law - giver ...
Page 142
... endeavour and desire of Free - will only , and you have adduced no passage which proves such an endeavour . But now , you adduce those passages , which , if your conclusion hold good , will ascribe all to Free - will . Let me here then ...
... endeavour and desire of Free - will only , and you have adduced no passage which proves such an endeavour . But now , you adduce those passages , which , if your conclusion hold good , will ascribe all to Free - will . Let me here then ...
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Page 92 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 273 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 322 - God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 278 - The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Page 307 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, " There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 108 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 343 - Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
Page 338 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
Page 387 - Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Page 308 - God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.