Church, Ministry, and the Calling of Servants

Catechism, Prayer, Sacraments, and Ministry

How to Elect and Appoint Church Servants

To the City Council and Community of the City of Prague. Translated from Latin into German by Paul Speratus. 1524.

Genesis 1-24

Interpretation of the first Book of Moses.

This first chapter is described with the simplest words, but it contains the most important and darkest things. Therefore it was forbidden to both Jews (as St. Jerome writes) that

Genesis 1-24

The Cainite Glory.

(12) But the Cainites also had to boast: for they had among them the very wisest men in all kinds of worldly dealings, also the very most beautiful glorifiers and hypocrites, who c

Genesis 1-24

From Enoch.

44 However, he did not want to pass over the history of Enoch, who was the seventh from Adam, as it is particularly excellent, although he is also very short in it. For with the ot

Genesis 1-24

The sixth chapter.

From the sins of the first bet at all, as the cause of their downfall. (1) In the first five chapters Moses described the birth of mankind as it was in the first world, and painted

Genesis 1-24

The sixteenth chapter.

How Sarah gives Abraham the advice to lie down with Hagar. V. 1. 2. Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him nothing. But she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Hagar. And she said unto Abr

Genesis 1-24

The nineteenth chapter.

How the three men arrived in Sodom and were taken in by Lot. In this chapter the punishment of the sins is described, which Moses thought of in the previous chapter, that the cry o

Genesis 25-50

Johannes Gudenus.

my favorable dear squire and patron. God's grace through Jesus Christ, our only Savior and Redeemer! Strict, honorable and honorable, favorable dear nobleman! How our Lord God, in

Genesis 25-50

The twenty-eighth chapter.

How Isaac commands Jacob not to take a wife from the Canaanites; how he blesses him and sends him to Mesopotamia, and how Esau takes advantage of this sending. Then Isaac called Ja

Genesis 25-50

The Forty-Sixth Chapter.

How Jacob travels to Egypt and sacrifices to the Lord; and how the Lord appears to him. (1) There is nothing else in this chapter except the genealogy of Jacob and how he went down

Genesis 25-50

The forty-eighth chapter.

How Joseph travels to his sick father Jacob; and how the latter accepts Ephraim and Manasseh in the child's stead. (v. 1, 2) Then Joseph was told, Behold, thy father is sick. And h

Genesis 25-50

The first two volumes of Luther's Sämmtliche Schriften.

Holy Communion. In it there is something else than in baptism, namely: the body and blood of Christ I, 279. f., whether he is at the right hand of God I, 1487. f.; but not if one d

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

An instruction on how Christians should send themselves in Moses,

preached by Martin Luther. (Preached after May 15, 1525, issued in 1526.)*)

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The third day.

1) Wittenberg and Erlangen: den. 2) Erlanger: "and" instead of: which.

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The fourth day.

V. 14-19. And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, dividing day from night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years, and let t

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The eighth chapter.

V.1-12. Then God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the box, and caused the wind to come upon the earth, and the waters fell, and the we

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The twenty-ninth chapter.

V.1-8. Then Jacob lifted up his feet, and went into the country that lieth toward the east. And he looked, and, behold, there was a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of shee

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The Forty-First Chapter.

After two years Pharaoh had a dream that he was standing by the water and saw seven of his oxen coming up out of the water, all of them skinny, walking by the pasture in the meadow

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The third chapter.

The third chapter teaches how Moses wandered in the desert when he left Egypt, where he saw a bush with fire, from which God spoke to him and commanded him to lead the people of Is

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The fifth chapter.

Then Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Let my people go, that they may prosper in the wilderness. Pharaoh answered, Who is the L

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The sixth chapter.

V. 2-5. And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord, and appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, to be their Almighty God: but my name, O Lord, have I not

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The ninth chapter.

(1) In the eighth and last chapter we have seven plagues that came upon the land of Egypt. First, that the rivers of water became full of blood; then, how God sent over the land fr

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The eighteenth chapter.

V.1-8. And when Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' brother-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and his people Israel, that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt, he t

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

B. Interpretation of the Ten Commandments

1526. Printed in 1528. In these two chapters you will hear how God gave the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel and practiced them as follows. 1)

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The twenty-seventh chapter.

What he commanded here about the altar that was to be erected on Mount Ebal from unhewn stones and about the law that was to be written on it is a temporal commandment that was to

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

The Thirty-Third Chapter.

This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death, saying, "The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up to them from Seir; he came forth fr

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The fifth chapter.

(1) Hitherto we have heard in the fourth chapter the beginning, or preface, which Moses set before the preaching which he would do of the ten commandments. For this is a book where

Old Testament Sermons and Readings

C. D. Mart. Luther's Interpretation of the Song of Moses, Deut. 32.

Laid out in 1530 or later, issued in 1532. Translated from the Latin by Justus Jonas.

Psalms

Philipp Melanchthon's Preface to the Students of Theology.

To the students of theology, Philip Melanchthon wishes salvation. I wish you, theologians, and indeed all of Christendom, happiness that the sciences, and especially those that ser

Psalms

The eighth Psalm.

XVI

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Luther and Melanchthon to the council at Halle [?]

Luther counsels patience in the abolition of common women's shelters. From Cod. chart. 398. f. Goth. in Seidemann-DeWette, vol. VI, p.417, without any time determination, and (like

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Nicolaus Baserinus, pastor in Mögel, to Luther.

Request for improvement of his material situation. The original is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. O, pag. 397. YY. N. 3. Printed by Burkhardt, p. 429.

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Caspar Schwenkfeld to Luther.

Injured by Luther's writings, especially by the one that had just gone out "from the last words of David", in which he is called a heretic, he seeks to justify his Christology by r

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Facultiitszeugniß für Friedrich Bachofer (Backofen).

Manuscript in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 417; in Cod. Movacens. in 4to, no. 88, no. IV, p. 59 and in Cod. Movacens. 90, no. VII, p. 389. Printed by Schütze, vol. I, p. 281 and by De

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To Daniel Cresser (Greser),^ pastor at Dresden.

Luther does not hope anything good from the form of excommunication in the works at the Dresden court. A copy is in Cod. Seidel. at Dresden from the blank page of Luther's letter t

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Duke Albrecht of Prussia to Luther.

About the lack of suitable church servants. A short regest in J. Voigt, p. 15. The above regest in Kolde, Analecta, p. 392.

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To Justus Jonas in Halle.

The original is in the Königsberg Archives. Printed by Faber, p. 69; from the Wernsdorf Collection at Wittenberg by Schütze, vol. I, p. 291 and by De Wette, vol.V, p. 610. German b

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Concerns about the Brunswick cause, jointly with Bugenhagen and Melanchthon.

At the location indicated in the previous number. In Burkhardt, p. 435 ff, in the note. If one would take action from the land of Brunswick, and otherwise due to other circumstance

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Elector Johann Friedrich to Luther, Bugenhagen and Melanchthon.

The Elector reports that he has received their concern (No. 3074). He declares himself willing to provide the churches and schools in Brunswick with the necessary supplies, and ins

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To the preachers (M. Antonius Otto and M. Joh. Spangenberg) at Nordhausen.

Luther exhorts them not to disturb harmony for the sake of trivial things. Handwritten in Cod. chart. Goth. 451. printed in N. Ericeus, Sylvula Sententiaruin, Francof. ad M. 1566,

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Friedrich Myconius, pastor in Gotha, to Luther.

Lament about the sad conditions in the church and the false attempts to heal them, recalling the clumsy doctor who tormented Luther in Schmalkalden. Of the disputes of the people o

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To an unnamed person.

(No letter.) Under this Ueberschtift Seidemann brings in De Wette, vol. VI, p. 359 ff. a passage from Luther's interpretation of Genesis, St. Louis edition, vol. II, 1003 ff. which

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To Spalatin in Altenburg.

Recommendation of a former monk to the preaching ministry. From the Gleichische Collection at Dresden in Schütze, Vol. III, p. 216 and in De Wette, Vol. V, p. 639.

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Pomerania, together with the other theologians.

This and the missive of May 30 refer to the dispute which arose between the two Pomeranian dukes Barnim IX of Stettin and his nephew Philip 1 of Wolgast over the reoccupation of th

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To the Princely Pomeranian Councilors, together with the other theologians.

Similar content as letter No. 3114. The original is in the Consistorialarchive at Stettin in Mohnike's Kirchen- und litterarhistor. Studien und Mittheilungen, I, 1, 197; in De Wett

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To Nicholas von Amsdorf, Bishop of Naumburg.

On the Cologne draft of the Reformation; on the meeting of the confederates in Arnstadt concerning the surrender of the Duchy of Brunswick to the Emperor; thanks for gifts. The ori

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To Johann Lang in Erfurt.

Luther writes his verdict on secret betrothals. Handwritten in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 422. Printed from the Börnersche Sammlung at Leipzig in Schütze, vol. I, p. 317 and in De Wet

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To Prince George of Anhalt.

Luther asks him to take care of Pastor Woye in his distress and to improve his situation during the visitation. From the original in the Dessau Archives in Lindner, Mittheilungen,

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To Simon Wolferinus, preacher in Eisleben.

About a matrimonial matter and about the improper behavior of Count Albrecht of Mansfeld against the priest Libius, who had used his penal office against him. Handwritten in Cod. G

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Ordination for Johann Reibitz. 1)

Printed in the Fortgesetzten Sammlung 1729, p. 533 and in Seidemann, Lutherbriefe, p. 71 f. We, pastor and preacher of the church at Wittenberg, after witnessing this writing, Joha

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To the margravial chancellor Christoph Straße.

Intercession for the wives of two pastors who had formerly been nuns. From the original in the Ansbach Archives in the Leipzig Supplement, p. 108, no. 204; in Walch, vol. XXI, 501;

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To Christoph Piscator in Jüterbock.

Answering some church questions. Handwritten in Cod. chart. Goth. 451. p. and in Bibl. Wolf. III, 171, a manuscript of the Hamburg library. Printed in Epistolis ad Conr. Schlusselb

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To the Elector Johann Friedrich, together with Bugenhagen.

Intercession for Bernhard Zettler. - He received 40 fl. support annually for the duration of his service. The original is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. O, pag. 125. Printed by Burkh

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Bugenhagen to Luther and Melanchthon.

Bugenhagen declines the bishopric of Camim offered to him, giving detailed reasons, and asks to answer the Elector in this sense. The original is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. H, f.

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To Nicholas von Amsdorf, Bishop of Naumburg.

About a visitation to be carried out in Naumburg Abbey; about the letter of the Pope to the Emperor, against whom Luther wants to write. The original is at Dresden in Cod. Seidel.

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To the city council of Amberg, together with Melanchthon.

Letter of recommendation for Johann Faber, whom Luther sends them to preach. From Schenkl's Chronicle of Amberg, p. 220, in De Wette, vol. V, p. 718 f. and in the Erlangen edition,

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Landgrave Philip of Hesse to Luther.

The landgrave sends him the translation of a shameful poem that came from Italy on Luther's supposed death. 1) - Luther answered on March 21. Printed in Rommel's Urkundenband, p. 1

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Prince George of Anhalt to Luther and Melanchthon.

Reply to No. 3192 and Corp. Ref., Vol. V, 698. The Prince thanks them for their letters of consolation on account of the death, by ^l. Georg Helt (Forchemius). From the original in

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To Nicolaus von Amsdorf, Bishop of Naumburg.

Luther thanks him for the applause he has given his book Wider das Papstthum (Against the Papacy), which, by the way, many do not like. About a writing of the Zurich preachers Agai

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To Friedrich Myconius, pastor in Gotha.

Luther asks to free him from the tarnish of someone for whom he had already written once to Myconius. 1) De Wette has the 1st of May. However, the letter is to be dated April 24. S

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To Nicholas von Amsdorf, Bishop of Naumburg.

About a marriage matter. About the arrival of Agricola and D. Jakob Schenk from Berlin in Wittenberg; about the alchemists of the Elector of Brandenburg etc. The original is in Cod.

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To Nicolaus von Amsdorf, Bishop of Naumburg.

About rumors of war. Luther wants to write once again Against the Papacy. 1) Antonius Musa helped with the visitation in Merseburg. (De Wette, Vol. V, p. 763.)

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To the City Council of Halle.

Luther exhorts him to continue in zeal and faithfulness for the gospel. Printed in the Altenburg edition, vol. VIII, p. 473; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XXI, p. 521; in Walch, vol

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To the Elector Johann Friedrich, together with Bugenhagen and Melanchthon.

Request for the mayor M. Oswald Losan in Zwickau in a scholarship matter. Reprinted, as it seems, from the original in Job. Christian Hasche's Magazin der Sächsischen Geschichte au

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To Anton Lauterbach, pastor in Pirna.

Luther asks him to make inquiries about a young man who had started a relationship with Luther's niece. Handwritten in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 744, printed in Schütze, vol. I, p. 3

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To George, Prince of Anhalt.

At the prince's request, Luther speaks out about the ceremonies. Printed by Beckmann, Historie des Fürstenthums Anhalt; by Lindener, Mittheilungen, Vol. II, p. 96, No. 66 and by De

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To Prince George of Anhalt.

Luther testifies to his satisfaction with a writing sent to him and states his opinion about old pastors who kept housekeepers. Handwritten in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 464, printed

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University Program.

By public notice, Luther, as Dean of the theological faculty, invites to the doctoral graduation of M. Peter Hegemon, which will take place on September 17. This document can be fo

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To Nicolaus von Amsdorf, Bishop of Naumburg.

Luther gives his verdict on Antonius Musa. News about the armaments for the Brunswick War. The original is at Dresden in Cod. Seidel. Printed by Schütze, vol. I, p. 367 and by De W

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To Count Albrecht zu Mansfeld.

About a trip to Mansfeld for the foundation of a settlement between the counts in dispute with each other. Handwritten in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 469. Printed in the Leipzig Supple

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To the council of Zwickau, together with the other theologians.

Concerns in matrimonial matters of the cantor Matthäus Weißmann. According to a copy in the Weimar Archives, Res. O, pag. 614, printed by Burkhardt, p. 485. - Burkhardt does not st

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To the Elector Johann Friedrich, together with Bugenhagen.

Intercession for the orphans of Mr. Paul Knod, that the prescribed fiefs may be left undiminished to them. The original in Canzleihand (the signature of "E. C. F. G." on is origina

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Notes.

See St. Louis Edition, Vol. XXII, 13. Table Talks, Cap. 1, § 10. Printed in the Hallische Theile, p. 471; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XXI, p. 689; in Walch, vol. XXI, Nachlese, 26

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To a city councilor.

Intercession for a student. From Cod. 402. f. Bibl. Goth., in De Wette's Nachlasse, printed in the Erlangen edition, vol. 56, p. 4XVIII. In Walch, vol. XXI, 1568. Neither the old c

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To Valerius.

Luther gives him advice on how to behave in a dispute with certain opponents. 1) The original is in Gotha in Cod. chart. B. N. 20, whose facsimile Seidemann received only after the

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To an unnamed person.

Of predestination, that one should not brood over it, but believe with certainty that one is predestined. From Cyprian's collection in Gotha in Schütze, Vol. III, p. 258 and in De

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XXII D. Justus Jonas and M. Michael Cölius report of Luther's Christian departure from this life.

In 1546, individual editions of this document were published in Wittenberg and Frankfurt, including One without indication of the location. Printed in the Wittenberg edition (1559)

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March 15, 1546.

From the Ella's Frick German Seckendorf, p. 2628, in Walch, Vol. XXI, 300*. We have been distressed and upset at most for important reasons that the venerable, our father and prece

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XXXIV. Philipp Melanchthon's History of the Life of Luther. 1546.

See St. Louis edition, vol. XIV, 456. In the supplement to the Leipzig edition, p. 112 and in Walch, vol. XXI, 394.

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To the City Council of Memmingen.

Luther asks him for a contribution to obtain the master's degree for Johann Schmelz. Handwritten in the Augsburg City Library. Printed in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, XIV (18

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Au Johann Brenz.

Postscript to a letter by Melanchthon. The original is in Munich, Cod. I, p. 381. Printed in Corp. Ref., vol. II, 517 and in Erl. Briefw., vol. IX. S. 53.

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The abbess of Herford, Anna von Limburg, 2) to Luther.

She reports that envoys from Herford were dispatched to Luther in order to counteract the Fratres, whose booklet Luther had approved. Because the deputies did not want to take the

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The deacons and ordained citizens of Hamburg to Luther, Jonas and Melanchthon.

They give thanks for the willingness of the Wittenbergers to fulfill their wishes, and ask that John Aepinus be allowed to return to them as soon as possible. Printed in the Mitthe

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Gerhard Wilskamp to Luther and Melanchthon.

Wilskamp says thanks for the kindness shown him by the explanation, repeats in essence what he had already written on October 10, that it would have been enough for them in Melanch

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Gerhard Wilskamp to Luther.

Wilskamp complains that since the time of the revival of the gospel, much evil has befallen the brothers, both from the papists and from so-called evangelicals. Now the council dem

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To Anna from the lady at Wendishayn.

Luther promises to intercede for her and her husband with the visitators. (Cf. No. 2000, where instead of "Darne" it reads: "Dame"). The original is in the Acts of Biederstem Castl

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The preachers at Ulm to Luther.

The clergy expressed their joyful approval of the Concordia. Luther replied on October 5. Printed in Keim, Reformation der Reichsstadt Ulm. 1851. p. 322 (without citation of the so

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To the Elector Johann Friedrich.

The following postscript is to be added to this number, which we overlooked in De Wette-Seidemann, because vol. VI, p. 443 concludes the letter, but p. 444 begins the postscript: A

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To Friedrich Myconius in Gotha.

The letter No. 2198 is to be transferred here, because, as we can see from the Erl. Briefw., vol. X, p. 248, the date is not "Luciä" but "Lucä", which the manuscripts testify. In a

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To Agnes Lauterbach in Leisnig.

This letter, like all previous editions, was published under the heading: "To an unnamed person. The name of the addressee, as the Erl. Briefw., Vol. X, p. 251, from a manuscript i

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The Council of Frankfurt a. M. to Luther and Melanchthon.

The council explains in detail how they were urged by the preachers to suspend the papal mass and ceremonies in the Catholic monasteries, and in what difficulty they got into as a

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To Brixius von Norden and the other preachers at Soest.

This should be the address of this letter, according to what Erl. Briefw., vol. X, p. 262. It says there note 2: Luther calls him in the heading wrongly Thonwerde. Brixius thon Noi

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To the Elector Johann Friedrich of Saxony.

Luther urgently asks for an allowance for the church servants in Grimma, especially for the pastor Johann Schreiner there. According to the privately owned, previously unprinted or

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Bucer to Luther.

Luther's postscript to Melanchthon. Handwritten at Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Helmst. 85.1.13.

Table Talk

From God's Word or the Holy Scriptures.

1. Of the holy Biblia. 2. proof that the Bible is the Word of God.

Table Talk

Of the world and its kind.

1. the godless nature of the world. 2. the insatiability and overindulgence of the human heart.

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Of the holy catechism.

The catechism must remain. 2. the catechism is necessary in the church, especially for the children.

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Of prayer.

1. what power prayer has. 2. about prayer and its power.

Table Talk

Of confession of doctrine, and consistency.

1. example of the constancy of the Christians under the emperor Juliano. 2. another example of consistency.

Table Talk

Of Holy Baptism.

1. of the sacred sacraments. 2 Baptism and the Word are the greatest gifts of God.

Table Talk

Of the preaching ministry or church servants.

1. reduction of the preaching ministry by the Sacramentarians. 2. the theologia speculativa.

Table Talk

Of angels.

1. what an angel is. 2. how and what to teach about angels.

Table Talk

Of the Antichrist, or Pope.

1. the image of the Antichrist. 2 Luther's interpretation of the prophecy of the prophet Daniel Cap. 11 about the Antichrist.

Table Talk

Of cardinals and bishops.

1. from the Cardinal of Salzburg. 2. from another Cardinal in Germany.

Table Talk

Of human traditions.

1. where the statutes in the papacy come from. 2. finite cause of human statutes in the papacy.

Table Talk

Of ceremonies.

1. that ceremonies shall be free. 2. whether to eat meat on Friday and at other forbidden times.

Table Talk

Of fanatics, gangs and sects who have rebelled against D. M. Luther.

1. by Marco N. of Zwickau, and a turner. 2. reds are proud and presumptuous.

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Of marriage.

1. that righteous love between spouses is strange. 2. whether a minister of the church may remain without marriage for the sake of the preaching ministry.

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Of authorities and princes.

1. authority is a sign of divine grace. 2. difference among parents and the authorities.

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Of Concilia.

1. what is the use of concilia.. 2 The Pope's and the Cardinals' humble letter to the King's preachers.

Table Talk

Of spiritual or church property.

1. D. Luther's Concerns of Church Property. 2. a pious matron's Christian testament.

Table Talk

Of school theologians.

1. from the terminists. 2. D. Luther's judgment of Lombardus.

Table Talk

Of counter and emergency defense.

1. whether to resist the emperor. 2. short list and summary of the concept of D. M. Luther from the warning to the Germans of the emergency defense.

Table Talk

Of schools, universities and good arts.

1. where to get preachers and pastors. 2. what houses most comfortable.

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Of Musica.

1. from the music benefit and power. 2. from singing.

Table Talk

Of signs and weather.

Anno 1517, when the Gospel went out, a beautiful bright Crucifix was seen in the moon at Weimar by both Electors and Princes of Saxony etc. In 1516, Duke Johannes of Saxony in Weima

Table Talk

Of scholars.

1. future shortage of learned people. The world cannot be governed without learned people.

Table Talk

AppendiX No. I. 1)

Translation of the pieces from M. Anton Lauterbach's diary for the year 1538, which are not found in the Tischreden. At the same time as a table of contents for those who wish to r

Indexes and Corrections

Main Subject Index (A-Z)

The main alphabetical subject index to the first twenty-two volumes of the St. Louis edition.

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Main Subject Index: F

Alphabetical subject index entries under F in the St. Louis edition.

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Main Subject Index: H-I

Alphabetical subject index entries covering H and I in the St. Louis edition.

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Main Subject Index: O

Alphabetical subject index entries under O in the St. Louis edition.

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Main Subject Index: S

Alphabetical subject index entries under S in the St. Louis edition.

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Main Subject Index: Z

Alphabetical subject index entries under Z in the St. Louis edition.

Indexes and Corrections

Aids for Resolving Dates

Reference notes for dating letters and documents in the St. Louis edition.