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Does It Follow From: 'turn Ye' That Therefore You Can Turn? Does It Follow From "'love The Lord Thy God With All Thy Heart' (deut 6.5) That Therefore You Can Love With All Your Heart? What Do Arguments Of This Kind Prove, But The 'free-will' Does Not Need The Grace Of God, But Can Do All Things By Its Own Power....but It Does Not Follow From This That Man Is Converted By His Own Power, Nor Do The Words Say So; They Simply Say: "if Thou Wilt Turn,telling Man What He Should Do. When He Knows It, And Sees That He Cannot Do It, He Will Ask Whence He May Find Ability To Do It..." 164

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Does It Follow From: 'turn Ye' That Therefore You Can Turn? Does It Follow From "'love The Lord Thy God With All Thy Heart' (deut 6.5) That Therefore You Can Love With All Your Heart? What Do Arguments Of This Kind Prove, But The 'free-will' Does Not Need The Grace Of God, But Can Do All Things By Its Own Power....but It Does Not Follow From This That Man Is Converted By His Own Power, Nor Do The Words Say So; They Simply Say: "if Thou Wilt Turn,telling Man What He Should Do. When He Knows It, And Sees That He Cannot Do It, He Will Ask Whence He May Find Ability To Do It..." 164

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Whenever I Have Prayed Earnestly, I Have Always Received More Than I Asked For. God May Delay, But He Always Comes.

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It Is Pleasing To The Dear God Whenever Thou Rejoicest Or Laughest From The Bottom Of Thy Heart.

Indeed, To Spur Your Baal To Action, I Will Taunt And Challenge You ... To Create As Much As A Single Frog In The Name And By The Power Of Free Choice, Though The Heathen And Ungodly Magicians In Egypt Were Able To Create Many.... I Will Not Set You The Heavy Task Of Creating Lice, Which They Could Not Produce Either

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The Devil Can So Completely Assume The Human Form, When He Wants To Deceive Us, That We May Well Lie With What Seems To Be A Woman, Of Real Flesh And Blood, And Yet All The While 'tis Only The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman. 'tis The Same With Women, Who May Think That A Man Is In Bed With Them, Yet 'tis Only The Devil; And...the Result Of This Connection Is Oftentimes An Imp Of Darkness, Half Mortal, Half Devil.

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Music Is To Be Praised As Second Only To The Word Of God Because By Her All The Emotions Are Swayed. That Is Why There Are So Many Songs And Psalms. This Precious Gift Has Been Bestowed On Men Alone To Remind Them That They Are Created To Praise And Magnify The Lord.

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True Humility Does Not Know That It Is Humble. If It Did, It Would Be Proud From The Contemplation Of So Fine A Virtue.

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I Have Grounded My Preaching Upon The Literal Word; He That Pleases May Follow Me; He That Will Not May Stay.

Anything That One Imagines Of God Apart From Christ Is Only Useless Thinking And Vain Idolatry.

Science Gives Man Knowledge Which Is Power; Religion Gives Man Wisdom Which Is Control.

Those With Prodigious Skill In Music Are Better Suited For All Things.

Whoever Would Like To Cherish Such Adders And Puny Devils - Who Are The Worst Enemies Of Christ And Us All - To Befriend Them And To Do Them Honour Simply In Order To Be Cheated, Plundered, Robbed, Disgraced, And Forced To Howl And Curse And Suffer Every Kind Of Evil, To Him I Would Commend The Jews. And If This Is Not Enough, Let Him Tell The Jews To Use His Mouth As A Privy, Or Else Crawl Into The Jew's Hind Parts, And There Worship The Holy Thing, So As Afterwards To Be Able To Boast Of Having Been Merciful, And Of Having Helped The Devil And His Progeny To Blaspheme Our Dear Lord.

This Is The Good And Happy News, That Christ Has Paid For Our Sin, And Through His Suffering Has Redeemed Us From Eternal Death. It Is His Kingdom And His Ministry, To Preach The Gospel To The Poor; That Is His Purpose. For To The Great And Holy He Cannot Come. They Do Not Wish To Be Counted Sinners, And Therefore Do Not Need His Gospel.

To Progress Is Always To Begin Always To Begin Again

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When God's Righteousness Is Mentioned In The Gospel, It Is God's Action Of Declaring Righteous The Unrighteous Sinner Who Has Faith In Jesus Christ. The Righteousness By Which A Person Is Justified (declared Righteous) Is Not His Own But That Of Another, Christ.

God Created Adam Lord Of All Living Creatures, But Eve Spoiled It All.

The World Doesn't Want To Be Punished. It Wants To Remain In Darkness. It Doesn't Want To Be Told That What It Believes Is False. If You Also Don't Want To Be Corrected, Then You Might As Well Leave The Church And Spend Your Time At The Bar And Brothel. But If You Want To Be Saved-and Remember That There's Another Life After This One-you Must Accept Correction.

But Know That To Serve God Is Nothing Else Than To Serve Your Neighbor And Do Good To Him In Love, Be It A Child, Wife, Servant, Enemy, Friend....if You Do Not Find Yourself Among The Needy And The Poor, Where The Gospel Shows Us Christ, Then You May Know That Your Faith Is Not Right, And That You Have Not Yet Tasted Of Christ's Benevolence And Work For You.

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My Dear Pope, I Will Kiss Your Feet And Acknowledge You As Supreme Bishop If You Will Worship My Christ And Grant That Through His Death And Resurrection, Not Through Keeping Your Traditions, We Have Forgiveness Of Sins And Life Eternal.

Acknowledge You

Divinity Consists In Use And Practice, Not In Speculation.

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If I Could Believe That God Was Not Angry With Me, I Would Stand On My Head For Joy.

Take Away The Mass, Destroy The Church.

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Reason Should Be Destroyed In All Christians.

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One Book Is Enough, But A Thousand Books Is Not Too Many!

After The Devil Himself, There Is No Worse Folk Than The Pope And His Followers.

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Merit Is A Work For The Sake Of Which Christ Gives Rewards. But No Such Work Is To Be Found, For Christ Gives By Promise. Just As If A Prince Should Say To Me, "come To Me In My Castle, And I Will Give You A Hundred Florins." I Do A Work, Certainly, In Going To The Castle, But The Gift Is Not Given Me As The Reward Of My Work In Going, But Because The Prince Promised It To Me.

This Letter [to The Romans] Is Truly The Most Important Piece In The New Testament. It Is Purest Gospel. It Is Well Worth A Christian's While Not Only To Memorize It Word For Word But Also To Occupy Himself With It Daily, As Though It Were The Daily Bread Of The Soul. It Is Impossible To Read Or To Meditate On This Letter Too Much Or Too Well. The More One Deals With It, The More Precious It Becomes, And The Better It Tastes.

If The Peasants Are In Open Rebellion, Then They Are Outside The Law Of God. Therefore Let All Who Are Able Slash, Strike Down, And Kill (those Who Rebel) Openly And Secretly, Remembering That There Can Be Nothing More Venomous, Harmful, Or Devilish Than A Rebel. It Is Exactly Like Killing A Mad Dog.

For The Devil Is Better Pleased With Coarse Blockheads And With Folks Who Are Useful To Nobody; Because Where Such Characters Abound, Then Things Do Not Go On Prosperously Here On Earth.

Those Who Love Music Are Gentle And Honest In Their Tempers. I Always Loved Music, And Would Not, For A Great Matter, Be Without The Little Skill Which I Possess In The Art.

It Is The Most Ungodly And Dangerous Business To Abandon The Certain And Revealed Will Of God In Order To Search In To The Hidden Mysteries Of God.

God Foreknows Nothing By Contingency, But That He Foresees, Purposes, And Does All Things According To His Immutable, Eternal, And Infallible Will. By This Thunderbolt, "free-will" Is Thrown Prostrate, And Utterly Dashed To Pieces.

I Cannot Choose But Adhere To The Word Of God, Which Has Possession Of My Conscience; Nor Can I Possibly, Nor Will I Even Make Any Recantation, Since It Is Neither Safe Nor Honest To Act Contrary To Conscience! Here I Stand; I Cannot Do Otherwise, So Help Me God! Amen.

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No Other God Have I But Thee, Born In A Manger, Died On A Tree.

When Some Say That Good Works Are Forbidden When We Preach Faith Alone, It Is As If I Said To A Sick Man: "if You Had Health, You Would Have The Use Of All Your Limbs; But Without Health, The Works Of All Your Limbs Are Nothing"; And He Wanted To Infer That I Had Forbidden The Works Of All His Limbs.

After Theology I Give To Music The Highest Place And The Greatest Honor.

Faith Is A Living, Daring Confidence In God's Grace, So Sure And Certain That The Believer Would Stake His Life On It A Thousand Times.

The Church That Preaches The Gospel In All Of Its Fullness, Except As It Applies To The Great Social Ills Of The Day, Is Failing To Preach The Gospel.

Faith Is A Living, Bold Trust In God's Grace, So Certain Of God's Favour That It Would Risk Death A Thousand Times Trusting In It. Such Confidence And Knowledge Of God's Grace Makes You Happy, Joyful And Bold In Your Relationship To God And All Creatures. The Holy Spirit Makes This Happen Through Faith. Because Of It, You Freely, Willingly And Joyfully Do Good To Everyone, Serve Everyone, Suffer All Kinds Of Things, Love And Praise The God Who Has Shown You Such Grace.

There Is No Rustic So Rude But That, If He Dreams Or Fancies Anything, It Must Be The Whisper Of The Holy Ghost, And He Himself A Prophet.

Daily There Have To Be Many Troubles And Trials In Every House, City, And Country. No Station In Life Is Free Of Suffering And Pain, Both From Your Own, Like Your Wife Or Children Or Household Help Or Subjects, And From The Outside, From Your Neighbors And All Sorts Of Accidental Trouble.

I Compare It With A Lie, Which Like To A Snowball, The Longer It Is Rolled The Greater It Becomes.

Godly People Are Waiting For The Lord; Therefore They Live, Therefore They Are Saved, Therefore They Receive What Has Been Promised.

A Christian Is Never In A State Of Completion But Always In A Process Of Becoming.

Cannons And Fire-arms Are Cruel And Damnable Machines; I Believe Them To Have Been The Direct Suggestion Of The Devil. If Adam Had Seen In A Vision The Horrible Instruments His Children Were To Invent, He Would Have Died Of Grief.

There Is No Justification Without Sanctification, No Forgiveness Without Renewal Of Life, No Real Faith From Which The Fruits Of New Obedience Do Not Grow.

The God Of This World Is Riches, Pleasure And Pride.

To Pray Well Is The Better Half Of Study.

What Would It Matter If, For The Sake Of The Christian Church, One Were To Tell A Big Lie?

Many Have Been Deceived By Outward Appearances And Have Proceeded To Write And Teach About Good Works And How They Justify Without Even Mentioning Faith.... Wearying Themselves With Many Works, They Never Come To Righteousness.

Mankind Has A Free Will; But It Is Free To Milk Cows And To Build Houses, Nothing More.

We Should Consider The Histories Of Christ Three Manner Of Ways; First, As A History Of Acts Or Legends; Second, As A Gift Or A Present; Thirdly, As An Example, Which We Should Believe And Follow.

It Is Not I That Smite, Stab, And Slay, But God And My Prince, For My Hand And My Body Are Now Their Servants.

The Holy Spirit Is No Skeptic, & The Things He Has Written In Our Hearts Are Not Doubts Or Opinions, But Assertions - Surer & More Certain Than Sense & Life Itself.

The Will Is A Beast Of Burden. If God Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As God Wills; If Satan Mounts It, It Wishes And Goes As Satan Wills; Nor Can It Choose Its Rider... The Riders Contend For Its Possession.

To Turn One's Eyes Away From Jesus Means To Turn Them To The Law.

I Refuse To Accept The Idea That Man Is Mere Flotsam And Jetsam In The River Of Life, Unable To Influence The Unfolding Events Which Surround Him. I Refuse To Accept The View That Mankind Is So Tragically Bound To The Starless Midnight Of Racism And War That The Bright Daybreak Of Peace And Brotherhood Can Never Become A Reality.

Many Sweat To Reconcile St Paul And St James, But In Vain. 'faith Justifies' And 'faith Does Not Justify' Contradict Each Other Flatly. If Any One Can Harmonize Them I Will Give Him My Doctor's Hood And Let Him Call Me A Fool.

War For The Sake Of War Is Sin, But War For The Sake Of Defense Is Duty.

Oh, What Thoughts Man Might Have Had About The Fact That God Is In All Creatures, And So Might Have Reflected On The Power And The Wisdom Of God In Even The Smallest Flowers!

Whoever Has Skill In Music Is Of Good Temperament And Fitted For All Things. We Must Teach Music In Schools.

A Man Must Completely Despair Of Himself In Order To Become Fit To Obtain The Grace Of Christ.

Faith Is Permitting Ourselves To Be Seized By The Things That We Do Not See.

Let Whatsoever Will Or Can Befall Me, I Will Surely Cleave By My Sweet Savior Christ Jesus, For In Him Am I Baptized; I Can Neither Do Nor Know Anything But Only What He Has Taught Me.

God's Entire Divine Nature Is Wholly And Entirely In All Creatures, More Deeply, More Inwardly, More Present Than The Creature Is To Itself.

It Is The Duty Of Every Christian To Be Christ To His Neighbor.

I [i.e., God] Have Given You Baptism As A Gift For The Forgiveness Of Sins, And Preach To You Unceasingly By Word Of Mouth Concerning This Treasure, Sealing It With The Sacrament Of My Body And Blood, So That You Need Never Doubt. True, It Seems Little And Insignificant That By The Washing Of Water, The Word, And The Sacrament This Should All Be Effected. But Don't Let Your Eyes Deceive You.

The God Whom We Worship Is Not A Weak And Incompetent God. He Is Able To Beat Back Gigantic Waves Of Opposition And To Bring Low Prodigious Mountains Of Evil. The Ringing Testimony Of The Christian Faith Is That God Is Able.

The Deceiver Can Magnify A Little Sin For The Purpose Of Causing One To Worry, Torture, And Kill Oneself With It. This Is Why A Christian Should Learn Not To Let Anyone Easily Create An Evil Conscience In Him. Rather Let Him Say, "this Error And This Failing Pass Away With My Other Imperfections And Sins, Which I Must Include In The Article Of Faith: I Believe In The Forgiveness Of Sins.

For Where God Built A Church, There The Devil Would Also Build A Chapel.

A Penny Saved Is Better Than A Penny Earned.

The Holy Ghost Must Here Be Our Only Master And Tutor.

If You Want To Change The World, Pick Up Your Pen And Write.

Of All Deadly Sins, This Is The Most Deadly, Namely, That Any One Should Think He Is Not Guilty Of A Damnable And Deadly Sin Before God.

Our Preaching Does Not Stop With The Law. That Would Lead To Wounding Without Binding Up, Striking Down And Not Healing, Killing And Not Making Alive, Driving Down To Hell And Not Bringing Back Up, Humbling And Not Exalting. Therefore, We Must Also Preach Grace And The Promise Of Forgiveness - This Is The Means By Which Faith Is Awakened And Properly Taught. Without This Word Of Grace, The Law, Contrition, Penitence, And Everything Else Are Done And Taught In Vain.

We May Search Long To Find Where God Is, But We Shall Find Him In Those Who Keep The Words Of Christ. For The Lord Christ Saith, " If Any Man Love Me, He Will Keep My Words; And We Will Make Our Abode With Him.

Grace Remits Sin, And Peace Quiets The Conscience. Sin And Conscience Torment Us, But Christ Has Overcome These Fiends Now And Forever.

Believest Thou? Then Thou Wilt Speak Boldly. Speakest Thou Boldy? Then Thou Must Suffer. Sufferest Thou? Then Thou Shalt Be Comforted. For Faith, The Confession Thereof, And The Cross Do Follow One Another.

Every Man Must Do Two Things Alone; He Must Do His Own Believing And His Own Dying.

God Is Ready To Give More Quickly, And To Give More Than You Ask; Yea, He Offers His Treasures If We Only Take Them. It Is Truly A Great Shame And A Severe Chastisement For Us Christians That God Should Still Upbraid Us For Our Slothfulness In Prayer, And That We Fail To Let Such A Rich And Excellent Promise Incite Us To Pray.

My Heart, Which Is So Full To Overflowing, Has Often Been Solaced And Refreshed By Music When Sick And Weary.

He Who Loses Sight Of The Word Of God, Falls Into Despair; The Voice Of Heaven No Longer Sustains Him; He Follows Only The Disorderly Tendency Of His Heart.

All Who Call On God In True Faith...will Certainly Be Heard.

We Conclude, Therefore, That A Christian Lives Not In Himself, But In Christ And In His Neighbor. Otherwise He Is Not A Christian. He Lives In Christ Through Faith, In His Neighbor Through Love. By Faith He Is Caught Up Beyond Himself Into God. By Love He Descends Beneath Himself Into His Neighbor.

God Has Set The Type Of Marriage Through Creation. Each Creature Seeks Its Perfection In Another.

Two Devils Rose From The Water, And Flew Off Through The Air, Crying, 'oh, Oh, Oh!' And Turning One Over Another, In Sportive Mockery.

I Often Laugh At Satan, And There Is Nothing That Makes Him So Angry As When I Attack Him To His Face, And Tell Him That Through God I Am More Than A Match For Him

Faith Is The Master, And Reason The Maid-servant.

Either God Must Be Unjust, Or You, Jews, Wicked And Ungodly. You Have Been, About Fifteen Hundred Years, A Race Rejected Of God.

Now If I Believe In God's Son And Remember That He Became Man, All Creatures Will Appear A Hundred Times More Beautiful To Me Than Before. Then I Will Properly Appreciate The Sun, The Moon, The Stars, Trees, Apples, As I Reflect That He Is Lord Over All Things. ...god Writes The Gospel, Not In The Bible Alone, But Also On Trees, And In The Flowers And Clouds And Stars.

The Most Damnable And Pernicious Heresy That Has Ever Plagued The Mind Of Man Was The Idea That Somehow He Could Make Himself Good Enough To Deserve To Live With An All-holy God.

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