Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will |
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... clear . " Thus you merely sport the sayings of others , or else exercise yourself , as it were , in a rhetorical figure . And you bring forward , in support of this opinion , that passage of Paul , Rom . xi . , " O the depth of the ...
... clear . " Thus you merely sport the sayings of others , or else exercise yourself , as it were , in a rhetorical figure . And you bring forward , in support of this opinion , that passage of Paul , Rom . xi . , " O the depth of the ...
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... clear in another . But , however , the same thing , which has been most openly declared to the whole world , is both spoken of in the scriptures in plain words , and also still lies hidden in obscure - words . Now , therefore , it ...
... clear in another . But , however , the same thing , which has been most openly declared to the whole world , is both spoken of in the scriptures in plain words , and also still lies hidden in obscure - words . Now , therefore , it ...
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... clear scriptures of God . J P You , therefore , when you adduce Paul , saying , " His judgments are incomprehensible , " seem to make the pronoun his ( ejus ) refer to scripture ( scriptura ) . Whereas Paul does not say , The judgments ...
... clear scriptures of God . J P You , therefore , when you adduce Paul , saying , " His judgments are incomprehensible , " seem to make the pronoun his ( ejus ) refer to scripture ( scriptura ) . Whereas Paul does not say , The judgments ...
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... clear- ness , no man sees one iota in the scriptures , but he that hath the Spirit of God . All have a darkened heart ; so that , even if they know how to speak of , and set forth , all things in the scripture , yet , they cannot feel ...
... clear- ness , no man sees one iota in the scriptures , but he that hath the Spirit of God . All have a darkened heart ; so that , even if they know how to speak of , and set forth , all things in the scripture , yet , they cannot feel ...
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... clear of Charybdis , you have , with excellent grace , escaped Scylla also . But into this state you are driven by your confidence in your own talents . You believe , that you can by your eloquence , so impose upon the understandings of ...
... clear of Charybdis , you have , with excellent grace , escaped Scylla also . But into this state you are driven by your confidence in your own talents . You believe , that you can by your eloquence , so impose upon the understandings of ...
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Page 92 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 273 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 322 - God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 278 - The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Page 307 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, " There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 108 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 343 - Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
Page 338 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
Page 387 - Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Page 308 - God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.