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 1 Intro      | INTRODUCTION~THE OPEN LETTER TO THE CHRISTIAN NOBILITY OF THE GERMAN NATION
 2 Intro      |         read the Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation.
 3 Cover, 1   |          touching the reform of the Christian Estate, to be laid before
 4 Cover, 1   |       Estate, to be laid before the Christian Nobility of the German Nation,
 5 Cover, 2   |        Imperial Majesty, and to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation,
 6   1        |         paper, and may set free the Christian rods for the punishment
 7   1        |           make us "spiritual" and a Christian people. ~But that a pope
 8   1        |       images,4 but it never makes a Christian or "spiritual" man. Through
 9   1        |             a little group of pious Christian laymen were taken captive
10   1        |         power of baptism and of the Christian Estate they have well-nigh
11   1  (5)   |            a practice as old as the Christian Church. The right of the
12   1  (5)   |          official of the Church any Christian can do for any other Christian
13   1  (5)   |      Christian can do for any other Christian the things that are absolutely
14   1        |           and a useful place in the Christian community. For whoever comes
15   1        |             another. ~See, now, how Christian is the decree which says
16   1        |             smaller place among The Christian offices than has the office
17   1        |        jurisdiction of the temporal Christian power, only so that the
18   1        |          you." ~On this account the Christian temporal power should exercise
19   1        |          escape punishment, then no Christian could punish another, since
20   1        |             the whole faith and the Christian Church. Moreover, it is
21   1        |        correct: "I believe one holy Christian Church"; otherwise the prayer
22   1        |            Rome," and so reduce the Christian Church to one man, -- which
23   1        |         Therefore it behooves every Christian to espouse the cause of
24   1        |       council would not have been a Christian council, but an heretical
25   1        |        these councils were the most Christian of all.28 But if the pope
26   1        |    therefore, hold fast to this: No Christian authority can do anything
27   2        |           at Rome God's command and Christian law are despised; for such
28   2        |         view made certain godly and Christian regulations. But my dear
29   2        |         himself,49 if he would be a Christian. Yea, here the devil becomes
30 Prop1      |            to ruin. ~Therefore, the Christian nobility should set itself
31 Prop1      |           become once more free and Christian, after the wretched, heathenish
32 Prop1      |             name arid such abuse of Christian authority, and thus to become,
33 Prop1      |         serviceable to the cause of Christian faith, but the courtiers
34 Prop1      |             must even hold them for Christian doctrine, when they are
35 Prop1      |            this too much. ~For what Christian heart can or ought to take
36 Prop1      |         against God and against all Christian doctrine. Now God help a
37 Prop1      |            envy.57 Nevertheless the Christian faith, which can well exist
38 Prop1      |           by both sides, and a good Christian life is valued and sought
39 Prop1      |             prelate, learned in the Christian faith, to rule it, for no
40 Prop1      |  foundations and monasteries except Christian schools in which the Scriptures
41 Prop1      |            which the Scriptures and Christian living were taught, and
42 Prop1      |             be helped, and not have Christian souls caught in human, self-devised
43 Prop1      |             by the ordinance of the Christian Church, that one of them
44 Prop1      |             be granted liberty by a Christian council to marry, for the
45 Prop1      |              I leave that to common Christian order and to everyone's
46 Prop1      |             have the authority of a Christian to advise and help my neighbor
47 Prop1      |           be instructive to a pious Christian, and there are, alas! So
48 Prop1      |            money's sake, then every Christian can grant dispensations
49 Prop2      |             And so it is altogether Christian to abolish, or at least
50 Prop2      |         abolished, then every pious Christian man should open his eyes,
51 Prop2      |        times, God help us! How much Christian blood has been shed over
52 Prop2      |             violation of the papal, Christian, imperial safe-conduct and
53 Prop2      |          violate an imperial, papal Christian safe-conduct, and faithlessly
54 Prop2      |       faithless dealing, violated a Christian safe-conduct and a commandment
55 Prop2      |       ignoramuses as regards things Christian; they seek not the welfare
56 Prop2      |           to the decree of the most Christian Council of Nicaea,51 allow
57 Prop2      |            with the Scriptures. For Christian faith and life can well
58 Prop3      |             Holy Scriptures and the Christian faith are little taught,
59 Prop3      |        opposes divine grace and all Christian virtues, and yet it is considered
60 Prop3      |            for it is here5 that the Christian youth and the best of our
61 Prop3      |           it was a praiseworthy and Christian purpose, as we learn from
62 Prop3      |            singing. Ought not every Christian at his ninth or tenth year
63 Prop3  (16)|                   i.e., The name of Christian. ~
64 Prop3      |          him, especially if he is a Christian, we Germans too cannot be
65 Prop3      |         this empire be ruled by the Christian princes of Germany, regardless
66 Prop3      |            should not the temporal, Christian government consider that
67 Prop3      |          abomination, why could not Christian people do as much? Nay,
68 Prop3      |            done. ~God give us all a Christian mind, and especially to
69 Prop3      |         mind, and especially to the Christian nobility of the German nation