Luther then asked, “And what men are capable of doing it?” His answer rejected the notion that the maintenance of peace and order in the worldly government can be accomplished by those who “rule only with the fist.”[69] Rather, as Solomon instructs in Proverbs 8, Luther asserted that wisdom and reason must be supreme in a secular authority’s armament, not force.[70] In sum, the gospel rules over the spiritual estate through the ministry of the Word and Spirit to grant true knowledge of the will of