Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . do otherwise than serve hisneighbour out of pure love. Thus we conclude,a Christian lives, not in himself, but in Christ andhis neighbour; in Christ, through faith; in hisneighbour, through love; or he is not a faith, he reaches upward to God; throughlove, downward to his neighbour. These three treatises together, says Koestlin, arethe chief reformatory writings of Luther. According totheir contents, they have a most important relation toeach other. In the first, Luther calls Christendom, ingener
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . do otherwise than serve hisneighbour out of pure love. Thus we conclude,a Christian lives, not in himself, but in Christ andhis neighbour; in Christ, through faith; in hisneighbour, through love; or he is not a faith, he reaches upward to God; throughlove, downward to his neighbour. These three treatises together, says Koestlin, arethe chief reformatory writings of Luther. According totheir contents, they have a most important relation toeach other. In the first, Luther calls Christendom, ingeneral, to the battle against the outward abuses of thePope and of the estate that boasted of being the only onepossessing a spiritual and priestly character. In thesecond, he exposes and breaks the spiritual bond, where-by this estate, through its means of grace, kept souls inbondage. In the third, he reaches the most profoundand important question concerning the relation of theChristian soul to its God and Redeemer, and the wayand nature of salvation. ^ Luthers Leben, i., LUTHER AS SAMSON. A LEIPZIG MEDAL OF 1617. CHAPTER VII THE BULL ALTHOUGH announced long before by rumour,the Bull did not reach Wittenberg until the firstweek in October/ Eck had gained, as he thought,a triumph, not only by overcoming all opposition atRome, but also in being himself deputed, as nuncio,to publish it in Germany. After invoking God, inthe words of Ps. Ixxiv., 22; Ixxx., 13, 14, summon-ing the aid of SS. Peter and Paul, and all the saints,for the distressed Church, suffering from the assaultsof a new Porphyry, the Bull condemns forty-twoerrors said to be taken from the writings of consist chiefly of sentences torn from theirconnection, most of which had already served Ecka good purpose at Leipzig, or had been uttered byLuther in that disputation. Among the errors forwhich Luther was summoned to recant, the thirty- For Bull, see original text in Op. var. arg., iv., 259 sqq. ; alsoin
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