Download Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will; Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-Will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... thren the Edomites; and for no other reason, than because, he hated the one, and loved the other; li, How then will your assertion stand good, that the prophet is here speaking of temporal affliction, when he testifies, in the plainest words, that he is speaking of the two people as proceeding from the two patriarchs, the one received to be a people and Baved, and ih& other left and at last destroyed? Td be received as a people, and.not to be received as a people, doefi pertain to temporal good and evil only, but unto all things. For our God is not the God ofi temporal things only, but of all things. Ndrdoes God wiB 'ttl be thy God so as to be worshipped with one shoulder, or with a lame foot, but with' all thy might, and with all thy heart, that he may be thy God as well here, as hereafter j in all things, times, and works. 'i'. Sect. chi.---The third contrivance is--'that, according to the trope interpretation of the passage, God neither loves all the Gentiles, nor hates all the Jews; but; out of each people, sbme. And that, by ihis' use ofithe trope, the scripture testimony in question, does not at all go to prove necessity, but to beat down the arrogancy of the Jews.'--The faiatribe having opened this way of escape, then comes to this--' that God is said i to--hate men before they: ' fclre born, because, he foreknows: that they will do that which will merit hatred: and that thus, ' the hatred and love of God do not at all militate against Free-will.'--And at last, ' it draws this conclusion--'' 'that the Jews were cut off from the olive tree on account of the merit of unbelief, and the Gentiles grafted in on aceount of the merit of faith; according to the authority of Paul; and that, a trope is held out to those who are cut off; of