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Concordia Triglotta—English: The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

English text of one of the most important documents of Lutheran thought. Features the Dau/Bente edition of the Lutheran Confessions.

also included whatever evil may happen to us under the devil’s kingdom—poverty, shame, death, and, in short, all the agonizing misery and heartache of which there is such an unnumbered multitude on the earth. For since the devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men’s necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide,
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