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Luther Primer: A Little Book of Goodly Excerpts from the Writings of Martin Luther is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book was originally written at the request of the Luther League of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was planned as a study book for its members during the quarter-centenary of the Protestant Reformation. It was eventually made available to the general public and presents authentic Lutheran teachings from several angles, covering basic doctrines of the church and various letters and sermons.

to read my earlier writings with great caution and with much pity, remembering that I too was once a monk, and one of the right raving and frantic papists. When I took up the cudgels against indulgences [see chap. iii], I was so full and drunken, yea so besotted, with papal doctrine that in my great zeal I would have been ready to do murder, or at least glad to see and help that murder should be done, on all who refused obedience and submission to the pope, even to his smallest word. Such a Saul
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