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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. ...

and many others; he knew also how to take hold of them where they were soft and tender, and where he might get advantage over them. The Apostle Judas, that betrayed Christ, was not very much tempted of the devil in all his life; but when the hour-came, then he went on securely, and knew not which way to wind himself. But we that do lie with him in the field (by God’s grace), do know how to encounter and to resist him. The devils highest art is, to make the Law out of the Gospel. If at all times I
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