The sin, it is true, is wholly forgiven, but it has not been wholly purged. If the Holy Spirit is not ruling men, they become corrupt again; but the Holy Spirit must cleanse the wounds daily. Therefore this life is a hospital; the sin has really been forgiven, but it has not yet been healed. -- Blessed Martin Luther, Final Sermon at Wittenberg, 1546 (AE 51:373)
This, more than anything else I've seen, shows what a remarkable individual Luther was. Why, he was still preaching ten years after his death!
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