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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....

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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