...ederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courage... ... for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s pro... ... also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther dem... ...gland. Not content with ordering Luther’s writings to be publicly burned in London, he also turned theologian and wrote a book of 78 quarto pages de... ...ion of this treatise into English. The first was made by Wace and Buchheim (London, 1896). The second was by A. T. W. Steinhäuser and is included in... ...of the Protestant Reformation) and was published by the Lutterworth Press of London in 1952. This revision is based on Steinhäuser’s translation, but... ...oubt, therefore, that in our day all priests and monks, together with their bishops and all their superiors, are idolators, living in a most perilous... ... nowhere less of faith and of the church than among the priests, monks, and bishops. These men are in truth heathen or hypocrites. They imagine them... ...ings in the church. Therefore I would admonish those princes of Babylon and bishops of Beth- aven 153 to refrain from reserving any cases whatsoever...

...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set ...

...“Rise up then, you popish flatterers, one and all! Get busy and defend yourselves against the charges of impiety, tyranny, and lèse-majesté against the gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such plain and powerful words of Scripture in order to acknowledge t...