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This book consists of a series of statements from men and women dating between 1501 and 1559. These statements illustrate the ideas, beliefs, and sometimes the fates, of the people who had come to share a profound discontent with the church as it then existed and a positive determination to change it.

those who will not hear the Son of God, of Whom the Heavenly Father says: “Hear ye him.” Luther brought to light the true and necessary doctrine. That the densest darkness existed touching the doctrine of repentance is evident. In his discussions he showed what true repentance is, and what is the refuge and the sure comfort of the soul which quails under the sense of the wrath of God. He expounded Paul’s doctrine, which says that man is justified by faith. He showed the difference between the law
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