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Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will; To the Venerable Mister Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1525 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Martin Luther’s classic treatise is a reply to Desiderius Erasmus’ work On the Freedom of the Will. Both wrote on the human will, but from different perspectives. Erasmus, the humanist and scholar of classical Greek, and Martin Luther, the reformer and theologian, differed greatly in their approaches. In this unique translation from the original Latin of a historically significant work, Edward T....

so goad you, with Christ’s help, that I hope I shall make you repent of having published your Diatribe. It is most necessary and most salutary, then, for a Christian to know this also; that God foreknows nothing contingently, but foresees, and purposes, and accomplishes every thing, by an unchangeable, eternal, and infallible will. But, by this thunderbolt, Freewill is struck to the earth and completely ground to powder. Those
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