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MARTIN LUTHER,
JUSTIFICATION, REFORMATION AND SEPARATION
The weapons, with which the saints overcame the
dragon, were not carnal, but mighty. These, we are told, were "the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony."
They believed and they taught in opposition to the popular doctrine of good
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MARTIN LUTHER CONFESSES HIS
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"It is well
known that Luther earnestly defended Christ's corporeal presence in the
sacraments; but it is said that he was of a contrary sentiment a little before
his death, and owned it. For as he
was preparing to make his last journey to Isleben, he confessed to Melancthon,
on the twenty-third of January, 1546, 'that he had gone too far in the
sacramentarian controversy.' Melancthon persuaded him to explain himself by
some public writing; but to this he objected, 'that by so doing he should make
all his doctrine doubtful; but that he (Melancthon) might do as he thought fit,
after his decease.' This speech was made before several witnesses."
Excerpted from "The Life of Luther,"
in Luther's Commentary on... Galatians,
p. lxxiv, resource #10 below.
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MARTIN LUTHER AGAINST
ARMINIANISM IN PROMOTING THE FALL OF THE ROMISH ANTICHRIST
Rev. 14:8. And there followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all
nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
V. 8. --
"There followed another angel." Some
expositors (Faber) interpret this angel of Luther, some of Calvin; but no individual
is sufficiently prominent in
history to justify the application to him of so striking a symbol in so concise
a prophecy. Such restriction of a symbol to an individual results
from prelactic habits
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ministry, not excluding the social body of which they are the official guides.
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angel carries forward the reformation effected by his predecessor, reviving
that cause when it began to languish under the violence of Antichrist. "While
the Roman pontiff," says Mosheim, "slumbered in security at the head
of the church, and saw nothing throughout the vast extent of his domain but
tranquility and submission, and while the worthy and pious professors of
genuine Christianity almost despaired of seeing that Reformation on which their
most ardent desires and expectations were bent, an obscure and inconsiderable
person arose on a sudden, in the year 1517, and laid the foundation of the long
expected change, by opposing with undaunted resolution his single force to the
torrent of papal ambition and despotism." That
individual was the heroic Luther, whose praise is in all the churches till the
present day. No individual is so famous in the history of that eventful period
as Martin Luther, for recovering the doctrine of justification by the
righteousness of Christ, to the exclusion of all creature merit.
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denominated articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesiae -- "the hinge of a standing of falling church."
By the defence
and propagation of this doctrine especially, the priestly office of Christ was
vindicated against the dogmas of penance, indulgence and supererogation,
inculcated by the "Man of Sin;" and by consequence, one of the
bulwarks of mystical Babylon effectually demolished. At the famous Diet of
Worms,
which, like the Council of Constance, combined the imperial power of Rome,
civil and ecclesiastic, that indomitable servant of Christ gave a visible
demonstration that "the Spirit of the Father" animated and
"spake in him," (Matt. x. 20.)
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less explicit was Luther on the fundamental doctrine of the divine decrees;
which, with other Arminian dogmas of creature merit, had been almost
universally propagated and stamped with the pretended infallible authority of
Rome. By
the translation and circulation of the Holy Scriptures among the people, the
idolatries, impositions and profligacy of the priesthood were extensively
discovered. And after years, of deference to ecclesiastical authority,
conditional proposals of submission to the Pope upon conviction of error in his
theses, or
conscientious belief, Luther in time arrived at the conclusion that the
church of Rome was irreclaimable, giving publicity to his deep convictions in a
treatise De Captivitate Babylonica, -- "The Captivity of Babylon." In
the 18th chapter of this book, he discovered that Babylon is doomed to
destruction. He considered the church of Rome as
answering to the prophetic symbol, and of course not to be reformed.
It was an obvious inference -- he ought to obey
Christ rather than the Pope, -- "Come out of her, my people."
-- This call was indeed a sufficient warrant to
separate from the Church of Rome; and, acting on it, protestant churches have
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Resource 1. LUTHER,
MARTIN
The Bondage of the Will (tenth
printing 1998)
The Bondage of the Will is
fundamental to an understanding of the primary doctrines of the Reformation. In
these pages, Luther gives extensive treatment to what he saw as the heart of
the gospel. Free will was no academic question to Luther; the whole gospel of
the grace of God, he believed, was bound up with it and stood or fell according
to the way one decided it... This is the greatest piece of writing that came
from Luther's pen. In its vigour of language, its profound theological grasp,
and the grand sweep of its exposition, it stands unsurpassed among Luther's
writings (front and back cover).
Luther
recognized this book as his most important work and even said that if all his
other books perished, he would hope that this one, along with his Small
Catechism (just published, see resource 20--RB), would be
the only ones to remain. As noted above, this is one of the most important
books of the early Reformation, for it deals with what Luther saw to be the
heart of the Gospel.
Luther here
refutes the Romish notion of "free will" in man and upholds the
absolute sovereignty of God in the salvation of sinners -- as well as
justification by faith alone. Luther clearly saw
the issue of free will as the primary cause of his separation from Rome.
In this book he
replied to the Roman Catholic scholar, Erasmus, and his diatribe The Freedom
of the Will.
Though disagreeing with just about everything else Erasmus wrote, Luther
commended Erasmus for recognizing the crux of the
matter at issue between Rome and the Bible believers, the debate
over "free will." In this regard Luther wrote,
that unlike all the rest, you alone have attacked the real
issue, the essence of the matter in dispute (i.e. man's so-called
free-will--RB)... You and you alone saw, what was the grand hinge upon which
the whole turned, and therefore you attacked the vital part at once; for which,
from my heart, I thank you.
"This book is most needful at the present day,"
noted Atherton in 1931, for "the teachings of
many so-called Protestants are more in accordance with the Dogmas of the
Papists, or the ideas of Erasmus, than with the Principles of the Reformers;
they are more in harmony with the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent
than with the Protestant or Reformed Confessions of Faith."
It
is easy to see how a lack of doctrinal and historical study is leading many
into serious compromise with the false ecumenical apostasy espoused by Rome and
other idolatrous beliefs which cry up man's ability to save himself (as with
Arminianism) and to devise his own methods of worship (as with those that
oppose the Reformation's regulative principle of worship in favor of their own
will worship).
In this area, many "Protestants," even now, bow down to Rome's
humanistic, anti-Christian idol of free will.
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Resource 2. LUTHER,
MARTIN
Watchwords for the Warfare of
Life (1869)
Classic quotes on a wide variety of
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upon in this book include: the Lord Jesus Christ, the creation, the law and the
gospel, the weapons of our warfare, prayer, the Word of God, preaching,
patience, the Church, the holy angels, the devil, sin, temptation and
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Resource 2a. PAISLEY, IAN R.K.
Martin Luther Speaks for
Himself
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the Roman Antichrist.
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MARTIN LUTHER ON
THE ORGAN IN WORSHIP
"The organ in worship is the
insignia of Baal… The Roman Catholics borrowed it from the Jews."
(Martin Luther, Mcclintock & Strong's
Encyclopedia,
Volume VI, page 762).
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