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conscience which accompany it, as at the payment
of fees at a toll-gate. To seek virtue, accordingly,
resembles an attempt to escape from
prison and its punishments. That is what
Luther asserts in article xxix. against the
Romish bull, when he declares that “souls in
purgatory sin continually, because they seek for
peace, and try to avoid torments.” Similarly,
in article xxxiv., he says, “To fight with the
Turks is equivalent to rebellion against God,
whose instrument the Turks are, in order to
punish our sins.” It is therefore obvious “that
all our good works are deadly sins,” and that
“the world must become guilty before God, and
learn that no one is justified except through
grace.”
Let us therefore suffer without hoping for any
real joy in life, for, my brothers, we are in hell.
And do not let us accuse the Lord, when we see
our little innocent children suffer. No one
knows why, but divine justice gives us a ground
for surmising that it is on account of sins
committed by them before their birth. Let us
rejoice in our torments, as though they were the
paying off of so many debts, and let us count it
a mercy that we do not know the real reason
why we are punished.
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