Luther's large catechism Author:Martin Luther Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: judge and do what is pleasing to God. Ps 11?, 9; 119, 105; Prov 6, 23; Ps 19, 7-8; Is 48, 18. Sin; 1 Jn 3, 4-8; Rom 5, 12; Genesis Vol. 1, 251-264; Vol. on St... more » Peter, 376.—Original Sin: Ps 51, 5; Jn 3, 6; Rom 3, 23; 7, 18; Eph 2, 3; Vol. 2 of Genesis 6, 5; 8, 2.—Actual Sin: Jas 1, 15; Mt 15, 19; 12, 31; 12, 36; Jas 4, 17; 1 Cor 4, 5; Num 15, 27-31; Lk 12 47-48; Ps 19, 13; Rom 6, 12-14; Jn 8, 34; Jas 5, 4; 1 Jn 5, 16, Mt 12, 31; Heb 6, 4-8. Repentance, or Sorrow for Sin and Faith; Ps 51, 19; 2 Cor 7, 10; Is 66, 2; Joel 2, 12-13; Acts 3, 19; 2, 37-38; Lk 18, 13; 15, 11-32; Acts 8, 24; 20, 21; 16, 30-31; Jn 8, 24; Mk 1, 15; Acts 20, 21; Mt 21, 32. SECOND PART. Hpostles' jfaitb, or Creek 140. We have heard above the first part of Christian doctrine, and have there seen all that God desires us to do and to omit. The Creed, then, properly follows, teaching us all that we must expect and receive from God; in brief, it teaches us to know him fully. This teaching is intended to help us to follow the Ten Commandments. For, as we said before, human ability is far too feeble and weak to enable us to keep them. Therefore, it is as essential for us to learn this part as to learn the other, that we may know how and whence to obtain the necessary strength to do this. If we could, of our own strength, rightly keep the Ten Commandments, we should not need anything further, neither Creed nor Lord's Prayer. But before we explain the use and need of the Creed, let the simple-minded first grasp and understand the Creed itself, which for them will be sufficient. 141. In the first place, the Creed has heretofore been divided into twelve articles; yet if we were to consider all the particular passages in the Scriptures pertaining to the Creed, we should find many more articles, though not...« less