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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.
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Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.
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I am entirely of the opinion that the papacy is the Antichrist. But if anyone wants to add the Turk, then the Pope is the spirit of the Antichrist, and the Turk is the flesh of the Antichrist. They help each other in their murderous work. The latter slaughters bodily and by the sword, the former spiritually and by doctrine.
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Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.
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He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
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The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them of clay, in the way Adam was fashioned.
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A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel... Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.
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Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
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The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.
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When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.
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A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 'tis a rare bird in the land.
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The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.
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Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
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To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
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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.
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I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
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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.
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It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
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Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'
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Born:
November 10, 1483
Died:
February 18, 1546
(aged 62)
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