and that of Isaiah too (Isa. 40:13.) “Who hath assisted the Spirit of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor”? It was easy for you to say these things, either as one who knew that he was not writing to Luther, but for the multitude; or as one who did not consider that he was writing against Luther: to whom you still give credit, as I hope, for some study and discernment in the Scriptures. If not, see whether I do not even extort it from you. If I also may be allowed to play the rhetorician, or
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