27 June 2022

Luther

[On St. Luke 14:23] Compelling and constraining them to come in means, to force anew the sins into the conscience, that thereby man may acknowledge, that he is nothing, that all his works are sinful and damnable, and thus quickly receives a despairing conscience and a bashful and terrified heart, in which every refuge and help are taken from him and everywhere he is unable to find any comfort in them, and finally despairs of all help in himself.—Church Postil, Sermon for Second Sunday after Trinity (HT: Pr. Gernander)

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