Luther professes himself out of love with his own books, and wished them burnt, lest men, spending time in them, should be hindered from reading the Scriptures, which are the only fountain of all wisdom: I tremble, said he, at the former age, which was so much busied in reading Aristotle and Averroes. We read in Neh. 8:5, 6, when Ezra opened the book of the law to expound it to the people, he “blessed the Lord, the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, Amen.” And now blessed be the Lord,
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