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This is the initial volume in the new American Edition of Luther’s Works—56 volumes in all—in modern English—the largest and most authentic English edition available anywhere. It brings to the English reading public for the first time Dr. Martin Luther’s most important writings. Ministers, theological students, and searching laypeople now have the opportunity to study and read extensively, and...

he knows and whose mercy and grace he has felt. Therefore when a Turk, a hypocrite, or a monk says, “Have mercy on me, O God,” this is as though he had said nothing. He does not take hold of the God he names as He is veiled in the sort of mask or face that is suited to us; but he takes hold of God and invades Him in His absolute power, where despair, and Lucifer’s fall from heaven into hell, must necessarily follow (Is. 14:12). This is the reason why the Prophets depended so upon God’s promises in
Volume 12, Pages 313–314