There are two circumstances by which men are wont to recommend, or at least to justify, their conduct. If a thing is done honestly, and from pious zeal, we...
Having observed that the sword of God is the test which discriminates between his true worship and that which is false and vitiated, we thence readily infer...
As to what I have yet said, there is no controversy among the pious, or among men of right and sane mind. Let us now see what is meant by the due worship of...
I insist not that the life of the Christian shall breathe nothing but the perfect Gospel, though this is to be desired, and ought to be attempted. I insist not...
It is a matter of common agreement that without true religion we live a most miserable life, not above the level of brute beasts, and consequently there is no...
Such is pure and genuine religion, namely, confidence in God coupled with serious fear-fear, which both includes in it willing reverence, and brings along with...
For it seemed to you that you should never have come soon enough into the land of blessing: what God made you to retire from it and it ought to have been yet...
We see then, that Jesus Christ our Lord would gather to him both great and small, to be honoured of all, and that they which are in honour, should humble...
Concerning others we say nothing. But we ourselves have already been taught by more than enough experiences how wicked denunciation is effective in not only...
As much as we be frail and have a rough and thorny way to go, yea and there be many stops to bar us, so as it will seem that there be great mountains to make...
Musical Instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps, and the restoration of the...
Dreadful are those descriptions in which Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Habbakuk, and others, deplore the disorders of the church of Jerusalem. There was such general...
If we were well advised we would not need to be taught to act reverently toward, God, for nature ought to bring us to that end. For [after all] what reason are...
1 OF 2 Psalm 22:7: All those who see me mock at me: they thrust out the lip, and shake the head. 7. All those who see me mock at me, etc., fa469 This is an...
2 of 2 Psalm 22:7: All those who see me mock at me: they thrust out the lip, and shake the head. How severe a temptation this must have been to David every man...
Psalm 22:6: 6. But I am a worm, and not a man; the scorn of men, and the contempt of the people. 6. But I am a worm, and not a man. David does not murmur...
Now, if my readers derive any fruit and advantage from the labor which I have bestowed in writing these Commentaries, I would have them to understand that the...
As the most direct road to Strasburg, to which I then intended to retire, was as shut up by the wars, I had resolved to pass quickly by Geneva, without staying...
Had we been the servants of men, we would now be ill repaid, but we serve a great Master, who never lets those who serve Him go unrewarded and who ever pays...
O Philip Melancthon, a hundred times thou hast said to me, when weary with toil and vexation thou did lean thy head upon my bosom, "would to God, would to...
I conjure thee never to forget how eminent a man, Luther is, and with what gifts he is endowed. Think with what strength of soul, what immovable perseverance,...
[Paul] had in mind the kind of question that today is dealt with in the schools of Sorbonne, to make a display of intellectual ability. There one question...
Whither could men turn without hearing vocal testimonies to the existence and glory of God? The birds in their warbling sing of God, and the lowing steers more...
God has no intention for the doctrine which is preached to us in his name and by his authority to fall to the ground; rather it is imperative that we carefully...
Whatever resistance we see today offered by almost all the world to the progress of the truth, we must not doubt that our Lord will come at last to break...
If the believing soul is driven to and fro in an unusual manner, still will it rise again superior to all its distresses, and never suffer itself to be ...
Believe me, Monsigneur,the Church of God will never preserve itself without a Catechism, for it is like the seed to keep the good grain from dying out and...
[It] will always be deserving of condemnation when we find men selfishly pursuing their own advantage, without any regard for the public good. Whoever aspires...
What, dear Bullinger, should more anxiously occupy us in our letters, than the endeavour to keep brotherly friendship among us by all possible means. It is...
Be pleased, Most Invincible Cæsar, and Most Illustrious Princes, to call to mind the many corruptions by which, as I have already shown, the worship of God...
