Posted by PJ on August 31, 19102 at 05:06:02:

In Reply to: Re: Where in Martins works? posted by tammy on July 29, 19101 at 16:05:03:

Can someone PLEASE email me pollocpa@bc.edu, the exact source, with Publisher, place, date, ed., p. etc?

Thanks!
:
: Luther said….

: “From all this you can judge all the books and decide among them, which are the best. John’s Gospel and St. Paul’s epistles, especially that to the Romans, and St. Peter’s first epistle are the true kernel and marrow of all the books. They ought properly to be the foremost books, and it would be advisable for every Christian to read them first and most, and by daily bread. For in them you do not find depicted in masterly fashion how faith in Christ overcomes sin death and hell and gives life righteousness and salvation. This is the real nature of the gospel as you have heard.

: If I had to do without one or the other either the works or the preaching of Christ I would rather do without the work than give life as he himself says in John 6:63. Now John writes very little about the works of Christ, but very much about his preaching, while the other evangelists write much about his works and little about his preaching. Therefore John’s Gospel is the one fine true and chief gospel and is far far to be preferred over the other 3 and placed high above them. So too the epistles of St. Paul and St. Peter far surp the other 3 gospels Matthew mark and Luke.

: In a word St. John’s Gospel and his first epistle St., Paul’s epistles especially Romans Galatians and Ephesians and St. Peters first epistle are the books that show you Christ and teach you all that is necessary and salvatory for you to knew even if you were never to see or hear any other book or doctrine. Therefore St, James epistle is really and epistle of straw, compared to these others for it has nothing of the nature of the gospel about it. But more of this in the other preface.”

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