The Bondage of the Will
Translated by Henry Cole
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- 10 hr 8 min read
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Translator’s Preface
About this book
Luther’s answer to Erasmus’s Diatribe on free will, and the book he counted among his best. Point by point he argues that the human will, fallen, is bound and cannot turn itself to God; that God foreknows and works all things by his immutable will; and that salvation therefore rests wholly on grace. Here in Henry Cole’s 1823 translation, with Luther’s letters on Erasmus to a friend and to Nicolas Amsdorf.
Sect. LXXVI. — THE Diatribe, having thus first cited numberless passages of Scripture, as it were a most formidable army in support of “Free-will,” in order that it might inspire courage into the confessors and martyrs, the men saints and women saints on the side of “Free-will,” and strike terror into all the fearful and trembling deniers of, and transgressors against “Free-will,” imagines to itself…
Contents
- 1 Translator’s Preface 4 min
- 2 Introduction 8 min
- 3 Preface: Section I 4 min
- 4 Preface: Sections II–VI 18 min
- 5 Preface: Sections VII–VIII 8 min
- 6 Preface: Sections IX–XXVII 64 min
- 7 Exordium 61 min
- 8 Discussion: Part the First 120 min
- 9 Discussion: Part the Second 182 min
- 10 Discussion: Part the Third 99 min
- 11 Conclusion 5 min
- 12 Luther’s Judgment of Erasmus 3 min
- 13 Luther to Nicolas Armsdorff, Concerning Erasmus 33 min
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