{"id":528,"date":"2013-04-18T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T02:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=528"},"modified":"2017-04-18T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T00:50:45","slug":"luther-at-the-diet-of-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/04\/18\/luther-at-the-diet-of-worms\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther at the Diet of Worms"},"content":{"rendered":"

“To see excitement and dissension arise because of the Word of God is to me clearly the most joyful aspect of all in these matters.\u00a0 For this is the way, the opportunity, and the result of the Word of God, just as He [Christ] said, ‘I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.\u00a0 For I have come to set a man against his father, etc.’ [Matt. 10:34-35].\u00a0 Therefore, we ought to think how marvelous and terrible is our God in his counsels, lest by chance what is attempted for settling strife grows rather into an intolerable deluge of evils, if we begin by\u00a0condemning the Word of God.\u00a0 And concern must be shown lest the reign of this most noble youth, Prince Charles (in whom after God is our great hope), become unhappy and inauspicious.\u00a0 I could illustrate this with abundant examples from Scripture–like Pharaoh, the\u00a0king of Babylon, and the kings of Israel, who when they endeavored to pacify and strengthen their kingdoms by the wisest counsels, most surely destroyed themselves.\u00a0 For it is He who takes the wise in their own craftiness [Job 5:13] and overturns mountains before they know it\u00a0 [Job 9:5].\u00a0 Therefore we must fear God.\u00a0 I do not say these things because there is a need of either my teachings or my warnings for such leaders as you, but because I must not withhold the allegiance which I owe my Germany.\u00a0 With these words I commend myself to your most serene majesty and to your lordships,\u00a0humbly asking that\u00a0I not be allowed through the agitation of my enemies, without cause, to be made hateful to you.”\u00a0 Martin Luther, “Luther at the Diet of Worms,” Luther’s Works<\/em>, vol.\u00a032, pp. 111-112.<\/p>\n

This quote comes from Luther’s speech at the Diet of Worms on April 18, 1521.\u00a0 It demonstrates Luther’s audacity based in his trust in Christ and his Word.\u00a0 Additionally, he reminded the princes assembled that he was a loyal German subject of the Holy Roman Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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