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Title: Works of Martin Luther
With Introductions and Notes (Volume I)

Author: Martin Luther

Translator: C. M. Jacobs

Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31604]

Language: English

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WORKS OF MARTIN LUTHER
WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES
VOLUME I

PHILADELPHIA
A. J. HOLMAN COMPANY
1915

Copyright, 1915, by A. J. HOLMAN COMPANY

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
LUTHER'S PREFACES (C. M. Jacobs)
DISPUTATION ON INDULGENCES (1517)
Introduction (C. H. Jacobs)
Translation (C. M, Jacobs)
TREATISE ON BAPTISM (1519)
Introduction (H. E. Jacobs)
Translation (C. M. Jacobs)
DISCUSSION OF CONFESSION (1520)
Introduction (H. E. Jacobs)
Translation (C. M. Jacobs)
THE FOURTEEN OF CONSOLATION (1520)
Introduction (A. T. W. Steinhaeuser)
Translation (A. T. W. Steinhaeuser)
TREATISE ON GOOD WORKS (1520)
Introduction (A. T. W. Steinhaeuser)
Translation (A. T. W. Steinhaeuser)
TREATISE ON THE NEW TESTAMENT (1520)
Introduction (J. L. Neve)
Translation (J. J. Schindel)
THE PAPACY AT ROME (1520)
Introduction (T. E. Schmauk)
Translation (A. Steimle)
INDEX (W. A. Lambert)

INTRODUCTION

No historical study of current issues--politics or social science
or theology--can far proceed without bringing the student face to
face with the principles asserted by the Reformation of the
Sixteenth Century and its great leader, Martin Luther. He has had
many critics and many champions, but neither his critics nor his
champions feel that the last word concerning him has been spoken,
for scarcely a year passes that does not witness the publication
of a new biography.

Had Luther been nothing more than a man of his own time and his
own nation the task of estimating him would long since have been
completed. A few exhaustive treatises would have answered all
demands. But the Catalogue of the British Museum, published in
1894, contains over two hundre