...dedicated June 23, 1520. “The Leipzig ass has set up a fresh braying against me, full of blasphemies”; thus Luther describes it in a letter to Spalat... ...ber 18, 1519: “There is no reason why you or anyone else should expect from me a treatise on the sacraments [besides baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and... ... more learned every day, with so many and such able masters eagerly driving me on and making me work. Some two years ago I wrote on indulgences, but... ...d are most happily engrossed with this important and worthy subject, I shall go one step further and undertake to show that all who deny communion in... ...cantation” so much as the praise of the French people and the Roman pontiff. Let him attest his allegiance in this little book, such as it is. He doe... ...e sacrament; that is, they partake of them through the faith of the church. Let this then be accepted as proved: John 6 does ... ...s matter: the Gospel narratives of the Lord’s Supper and Paul in I Cor. 11. Let us examine these. Matthew [26], Mark [14], and Luke [22] agree that ... ...or anyone can easily see that these two, promise and faith, must necessarily go together. For without the promise there is nothing to be believed; wh... ...liar and a maker of empty promises. The safest course, therefore, will be to go to the mass in the same spirit in which you would go to hear any othe...