SELECT WORKS

of

Martin Luther:

an

OFFERING TO THE CHURCH OF GOD

in

“THE LAST DAYS,”

2 Tim. 3:1

translated from the works of luther,

BY THE REV. HENRY COLE,

of clare hall, cambridge,

and late lecturer of woolwich, kent.

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. Prov. 10:7

He being dead yet speaketh. Heb. 11:4

VOLUME I

London:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY T. BENSLEY,

Crane Court, Fleet Street

sold by j. eedes, no. 2, newgate street;

w. simpkin and r. marshall, stationers’ hall court;

r. baynes, 28, paternoster row;

and by wm. clarke, no. 14, king’s row, walworth

1826

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

Christian Liberty

Commentary on the Fifty-first Psalm

selections from the commentaries on the romans, galatians, psalms, &c.

Preface to the Epistle to the Romans

Use of the Law

Continuance of the Law

Difference between Faith and Hope

Charity no Faith

Faith standing in the power of God

How to meditate upon, and apply, the Death and Sacrifice of Christ

The Sin against the Holy Ghost

Christ delighting in the beauty of the righteous

Christ’s people all righteous

True Faith, true Obedience, and true Holiness

Saving work of the Holy Spirit, and his cry of Abba Father in the heart (description of true Prayer)

Internal Warfare of the Child of God

Gratitude to God for his divine teaching

The Saint’s Triumph over Death

sermons

The Lost Sheep

The Good Shepherd

The Seven Loaves

Two sorts of Men in respect of Faith, and what Faith is

The Rich Man and Lazarus

The strength and growth of Faith and Love

The Ten Lepers

The Sum of the Christian Life

Of the coming of Christ, and the signs that shall precede the last day (Sermon of Consolation)

Martin Luther

concerning

CHRISTIAN LIBERTY

the

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

It is usual to preface a work, submitted to the notice of the world, with reasons for its publication. The Translator however desires to say, he has no other reason to assign for making the present “offering,” than that which he has already given in his Proposals for publication—“that from many particularly directing circumstances, he was led to believe it would, under the divine blessing, be useful to the church of God in the present day.”

The character which the work professes to bear is—to deliver faithfully the mind of Luther; retaining, literally, as much of his own wording, phraseology, and expression, as could well be admitted into the English version—the principles to which the Translator proposed and endeavoured to adhere, in his English version of Luther’s profound and invaluable Treatise on the Bondage of the Will, which has lately been presented to the British Church.

To these introductory observations, the Translator adds nothing more than the following appropriate extract from the Preface written by Melancthon, and prefixed by him to that edition of his beloved Luther’s works, which he published at Wirtemberg, from the Press of Seitz in the year 1551, shortly after the death of his Christian brother and fellow-labourer in the ministry of ...