Complete Luther Library

Reformation Writings.

Volume 15 from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

Source text used with permission from Back to Luther.

Volume 15

Reformation Writings.

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First part: Historical documents.

A. Against the Papists.

The first chapter.

The historical documents in the first chapter, such as papal bulls, letters of indulgence and butter, indulgence instructions and the like, show how religion was turned into a trade in the papacy. The entire papal indulgence system is presented to us according to its origin and progress, especially Tetzel's indulgences, which gave rise to the Reformation.