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A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of M. Luther and J. Calvin
A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of M Luther and J Calvin Author:Martin Luther Subtitle: (never Before Published in the United States.) to Which Is Prefixed, a Biographical History of Their Lives General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: Comp. and pub. by R. Bentley Subjects: Sermons Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and... more » there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Then indeed is he most ready to receive the grace of God ; this being the time appointed by the Father when his servitude shall end, and he enter into the liberty of the sons of God. For being thus in distress, and terrified, seeing that by no other means he can avoid the condemnation of the law, he prays to the Father for grace ; he acknowledges his frailty, he confesses his sin, he ceases to trust in works, and humbles himself, perceiving that between him and a manifest sinner, there is no difference at all except of works, that he hath a wicked heart even as every other sinner hath. The condition of man's nature is such, that it is able to give to the law, works only, and not the heart: an unequal division, truly, to dedicate the heart, which incomparably excels all other things, to sin, and the hand to the law: which is offering chaff to the law, and the wheat to sin; the shell to God, and the kernel to satan. Whose ungodliness if one reprove, they become enraged, and would even take the life of innocent Mel, and persecute all those that follow the truth. Those that trust in works, seem to defend them to obtain righteousness ; they promise to themselves a great reward for this, by persecuting hereticks and blasphemers, as they say, which seduce with errour, and entice many from good works. But those that God hath chosen, learn by the law how unwilling the heart is to conform to the works of the law; they fall from th...« less