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This book is a collection of the Protestant Reformer’s informal, often colorful, and sometimes controversial conversations about topics ranging from Scripture to the sacraments, from the lives of the saints to the learning of scholastics, from civil magistrates to sacred music—and almost everything in between. It affords valuable and frequently eye-opening insights into Martin Luther’s life. ...

thief, the same holdeth himself to be an upright and a godly man: As also the Pharisees would have sworn that he was a just and godly person, for he was blinded and possessed spiritually of the devil, insomuch that he could neither see nor feel his sins, nor his miserable case. Therefore he was taken with such imaginations and blasphemous thoughts. whereby he was induced to exalt and applaud himself touching his good works and deserts. Such hypocrites and haughty saints can God by no better means
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