Produced by Michael McDermott, from scans obtained at the Internet Archive WORKS OF MARTIN LUTHER WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES VOLUME II PHILADELPHIA A. J. HOLMAN Company 1916 Copyright, 1915, by A. J. HOLMAN Company WORKS OF MARTIN LUTHER CONTENTS A TREATISE CONCERNING THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AND CONCERNING THE BROTHERHOODS (1519). Introduction (J. J. Schindel) Translation (J. J. Schindel) A TREATISE CONCERNING THE BAN (1520). Introduction (J. J. Schindel) Translation (J. J. Schindel) AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CHRISTIAN NOBILITY (1520). Introduction (C. M. Jacobs) Translation (C. M. Jacobs) THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF THE CHURCH (1520). Introduction (A. T. W. Steinhaeuser) Translation (A. T. W. Steinhaeuser) A TREATISE ON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY (1520). Introduction (W. A. Lambert) Translation (W. A. Lambert) A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE CREED, AND THE LORD'S PRAYER (1520). Introduction (C. M. Jacobs) Translation (C. M. Jacobs) THE EIGHT WITTENBERG SERMONS (1522). Introduction (A. Steimle) Translation (A. Steimle) THAT DOCTRINES OF MEN ARE TO BE REJECTED (1522). Introduction (W. A. Lambert) Translation (W. A. Lambert) A TREATISE CONCERNING THE BLESSED SACRAMENT OF THE HOLY AND TRUE BODY OF CHRIST AND CONCERNING THE BROTHERHOODS 1519 INTRODUCTION This treatise belongs to a series of four which appeared in the latter half of the year 1519, the others treating of the Ban, Penance, and Baptism. The latter two with our treatise form a trilogy which Luther dedicates to the Duchess Margaret of Braunschweig and Lüneburg. He undertakes the work, as he says, "because there are so many troubled and distressed ones--and I myself have had the experience--who do not know what the holy sacraments, full of all grace, are, nor how to use them, but, alas! presume upon quieting their consciences with their works, instead of seeking peace in God's grace through the holy sacrament; so completely are the holy sacraments obscured and withdrawn from us by the teaching of men."[1] In a letter to Spalatin[2] of December 18, 1519, he says that no one need expect treatises from him on the other sacraments, since he cannot acknowledge them as such. A copy from the press of John Grünenberg of Wittenberg reached Duke George of Saxony by December 24, 1519, who on December 27th already entered his protest against it with the Elector Frederick and the Bishops of Meissen and Merseburg[3]. Duke George took exception particularly to Luther's advocacy of the two kinds in the Communion[4]. This statement of Luther, however, was but incidental to his broad and rich treatment of the subject of the treatise.