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Luther’s Catechetical Writings: God’s Call to Repentance, Faith and Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book contains Luther’s small and large catechisms, which grew out of practical religious needs, and ultimately out of the institution of the confessional. He was grieved by what he considered the spiritual wretchedness of Christians, and he saw it as his duty to teach them the doctrine of eternal salvation. These catechisms were meant both for schoolchildren and for adults, and Luther...

me, but, Lead us not into it. What the supplicant means to say is, We are surrounded with temptations on all sides and cannot escape them, but, O our Father, help us not to enter into them, that is, not to consent to yield to them and so be overcome and overthrown. He who yields to temptation sins and becomes a captive of sin, as Saint Paul says, Rom 7:23. 156. Therefore, this life is, as Job says (7:1), nothing but a warfare and a perpetual conflict with sin. And the dragon, the devil, continually
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