Martin Luther
 
 
 
 

Martin Luther, German Reformer

(From a portrait by Cranach in the town Church at Weimar)

  
 

Martin Luther (1483-1546AD)
GERMAN REFORMER

“The ungodly Cain was a great lord in the world, while Abel, his upright and pious brother, was an outcast, oppressed and murdered. But before God, the case was quite contrary—Cain was rejected of God, Abel accepted and received as God’s beloved child. The like is daily seen here on earth, therefore let us not heed its doings.” [quote from Luther's Table Talk]

  
 

Martin Luther burns Papal Bull of Excommunication
at 9.00 a.m., 10th December, 1520 at Wittenberg.

“The burning of the Pope’s Bull of Excommunication was the boldest and most eventful act of Luther. Viewed in itself, it might indeed have been only an act of fanaticism and folly, and proved a brutum fulmen. But it was preceded and followed by heroic acts of faith in pulling down an old church, and building up a new one. It defied the greatest power on earth, before which emperors, kings, and princes, and all the nations of Europe bowed in reverence and awe. It was the fiery signal of absolute and final separation from Rome, and destroyed the effect of future papal bulls upon one-half of Western Christendom. It emancipated Luther and the entire Protestant world from that authority, which... had become a fearful and intolerable tyranny over the intellect and conscience of men.”

[Philip Schaff D.D., "History of the Reformation" from his "History of the Christian Church" 1888 edition.]

go to Luther’s Autobiographical fragment. (25k)

  
   
 
 
 

EVANGELICAL TRACTS

J. C. RYLE

REFORMATION

GEORGE WHITEFIELD

JOHN BUNYAN

J. GRESHAM MACHEN

JOHN OWEN

GEORGE SALMON

JAMES WYLIE

JOHN CHARLES RYLE

JONATHAN EDWARDS

R. C. TRENCH

JOHN KNOX

LORAINE BOETTNER

CHARLES SPURGEON

JOHN WYCLIFFE

CHARLES HODGE

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