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Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I)
Luther, Martin
Lutheran Church -- Early works to 1800; Theology -- History -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800
Beichte, 2 vols., 1902-1903. Rietschel, G., Lehrbuch der
Liturgik, vol 2, particularly secs. 44, 45, Luthers Affassung
der Beichte and Luthers Auffassung von der Absolution.
Koestlin, Julius, Luther's Theology (English Translation),
I:357, 360, 400. See also Smalcald Articles, Book of Concord
(English Translation), 326, 899.
Henry E. Jacobs.
Mount Airy, Philadelphia.
FOOTNOTES
[1] 1. Decem Praecepta Wittebergenai praedicata populo, 1518,
Erl. Ed., op. ex. lat., I, 218. A series of sermons entering
into almost minute analyses of sins.
2. Die zehen Gebote Gottes mit einer kurzen Auslegung ihre
Erfüllung und Uebertretung, Weimar Ed., I, 247 ff; Erl. Ed.,
XXXVI, 145-154. Reduces contents of the sermons to a few pages. A
brief handbook for use in the confessional first printed in
tabular form, giving a very condensed exposition of each
commandment, followed by a catalogue of sins prohibited and
virtues enjoined. Written a month before the publication of the
Theses, and published the next year.
3. Instructio pro confessione peccatorum abbrevianda secundum
decalogum. Latin form of the above, published shortly after the
original. Erl. Ed., op. ex. lat., XII, 229-230.
4. Kurze Unterweisung wie man beichten soll. Weimar Ed., II,
57 ff.; Erl. Ed., XXI, 245-253 prepared by request of Spalatin,
first in Latin, and then translated, Köstlin thinks by Spalatin,
into German. Published 1518. Contains eight introductory
propositions, followed by lists of sins against each commandment.
5. Confitendi Ratio, published in 1520, a re-elaboration by
Luther of the preceding German treatise. Weimar Ed., VI,
159-169; Erl. Ed., IV, 152-170; St. Louis Ed., XIX, 786-806.
[2] "Ja, mein ganzes Leben, und alles, das ich thu, handel, red
und gedenk, ist also gethan, das es todlich und vordammlich
ist." These are almost the words of the public confessional
prayer in the Kirchenbuch of the General Council of the Lutheran
Church in America: "Also dans alle meine Natur und
Wesensträflich und verdammlich ist."
[3] Erl. Ed., op. var. arg., IV, 89 aq. "Si enim suum malum
sentiret, infernum sentiret, nam infernum in se ipso habet." See
this volume, p. 115f.
[4] Erl. Ed., op. ex. lat., XIX, 1-154.
[5] Erl. Ed. (2d ed.), XI, 173.
[6] See the opening paragraph of this treatise.
[7] Erl. Ed., XI, 166, XXIX, 352-359. Cf. with this, the still
fuller treatment by Chemnitz, Examin Concilii Tridentini
(Preuss edition), 441-453.
[8] Babylonian Captivity, Erl. Ed., op. var. arg., V, 82.
[9] Cf. Augsburg Confession, Art. XXV; Apology in Book of
Concord, English Translation, pp. 133, 173, 185, 188, 196;
Smalcald Articles, 330-339; Small Catechism, 371.
[10] Sermon vom Sacrament der Busse, Erl. Ed., XX, 190. For
definition of "mortal and venial," see Introduction to XCV
Theses, above, p. 19.
[11] See Vol. II. of this edition.
[12] Deninger, Enchridion Symbolorum, soc. 782; Sceaff's
Creeds of Christendom.
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