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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... hold an empty word , to the peril and mockery of the believing people ? There is no more wisdom in so doing , than there is in kings and potentates retaining , or claiming and boasting of , empty titles of kingdoms and countries , when ...
... hold an empty word , to the peril and mockery of the believing people ? There is no more wisdom in so doing , than there is in kings and potentates retaining , or claiming and boasting of , empty titles of kingdoms and countries , when ...
Page 82
... hold of that , John viii . where the Jews say unto Christ , " Do we not say well that thou art a Samaritan , and hast a devil ? " Or that : " He is guilty of death . " . Or that : " We found this fellow perverting our nation , and ...
... hold of that , John viii . where the Jews say unto Christ , " Do we not say well that thou art a Samaritan , and hast a devil ? " Or that : " He is guilty of death . " . Or that : " We found this fellow perverting our nation , and ...
Page 83
... church is the pillar and ground of the truth , 1 Tim . iii . These things , I say , we know ; for the creed which we all hold runs thus , " I believe in the holy catholic " baubles , which they could not say , without G 2 - 83.
... church is the pillar and ground of the truth , 1 Tim . iii . These things , I say , we know ; for the creed which we all hold runs thus , " I believe in the holy catholic " baubles , which they could not say , without G 2 - 83.
Page 90
... hold the case thus : -that the spirits are to be tried and proved by a twofold judgment . The one , internal ; by which , through the Holy Spirit , or a pe- culiar gift of God , any one may illustrate , and to a certainty , judge of ...
... hold the case thus : -that the spirits are to be tried and proved by a twofold judgment . The one , internal ; by which , through the Holy Spirit , or a pe- culiar gift of God , any one may illustrate , and to a certainty , judge of ...
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... hold forth the word of life . " For life without the word is uncertain and obscure . And what is the design of the apostles in proving their preaching by the scriptures ? Is it that they may obscure their own darkness by still greater ...
... hold forth the word of life . " For life without the word is uncertain and obscure . And what is the design of the apostles in proving their preaching by the scriptures ? Is it that they may obscure their own darkness by still greater ...
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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.