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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, by Martin Luther
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+Title: Martin Luther's 95 Theses
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+Author: Martin Luther
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+Release Date: April 25, 2008 [EBook #274]
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+Language: Latin
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARTIN LUTHER'S 95 THESES ***
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+Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther
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+on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
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+by Dr. Martin Luther, 1517
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+  Published in:
+  Works of Martin Luther
+  Adolph Spaeth, L.D. Reed, Henry Eyster Jacobs, et Al., Trans. & Eds.
+  (Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1915), Vol. 1, pp. 29-38.
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+  DISPUTATION OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER
+  ON THE POWER AND EFFICACY OF
+  INDULGENCES
+
+OCTOBER 31, 1517
+
+Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the
+following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the
+presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of
+Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place.
+Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and
+debate orally with us, may do so by letter.
+
+In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
+
+1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite,
+willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance.
+
+2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e.,
+confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests.
+
+3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no inward
+repentance which does not outwardly work divers mortifications of the
+flesh.
+
+4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self
+continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until
+our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
+
+5. The pope does not intend to remit, and cannot remit any penalties
+other than those which he has imposed either by his own authority or by
+that of the Canons.
+
+6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has
+been remitted by God and by assenting to God's remission; though, to be
+sure, he may grant remission in cases reserved to his judgment. If his
+right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would
+remain entirely unforgiven.
+
+7. God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same time,
+humble in all things and bring into subjection to His vicar, the
+priest.  8. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and,
+according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying.
+
+9. Therefore the Holy Spirit in the pope is kind to us, because in his
+decrees he always makes exception of the article of death and of
+necessity.
+
+10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, in the
+case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for purgatory.
+
+11. This changing of the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory
+is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown while the bishops
+slept.
+
+12. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not after, but
+before absolution, as tests of true contrition.
+
+13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are already
+dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be released from them.
+
+14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the imperfect love,
+of the dying brings with it, of necessity, great fear; and the smaller
+the love, the greater is the fear.
+
+15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say nothing
+of other things) to constitute the penalty of purgatory, since it is
+very near to the horror of despair.
+
+16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ as do despair,
+almost-despair, and the assurance of safety.
+
+17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror should grow
+less and love increase.
+
+18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that they are
+outside the state of merit, that is to say, of increasing love.
+
+19. Again, it seems unproved that they, or at least that all of them,
+are certain or assured of their own blessedness, though we may be quite
+certain of it.
+
+20. Therefore by "full remission of all penalties" the pope means not
+actually "of all," but only of those imposed by himself.
+
+21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who say that
+by the pope's indulgences a man is freed from every penalty, and saved;
+
+22. Whereas he remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according
+to the canons, they would have had to pay in this life.  23. If it is
+at all possible to grant to any one the remission of all penalties
+whatsoever, it is certain that this remission can be granted only to
+the most perfect, that is, to the very fewest.
+
+24. It must needs be, therefore, that the greater part of the people
+are deceived by that indiscriminate and highsounding promise of release
+from penalty.
+
+25. The power which the pope has, in a general way, over purgatory, is
+just like the power which any bishop or curate has, in a special way,
+within his own diocese or parish.
+
+26. The pope does well when he grants remission to souls [in
+purgatory], not by the power of the keys (which he does not possess),
+but by way of intercession.
+
+27. They preach man who say that so soon as the penny jingles into the
+money-box, the soul flies out [of purgatory].
+
+28. It is certain that when the penny jingles into the money-box, gain
+and avarice can be increased, but the result of the intercession of the
+Church is in the power of God alone.
+
+29. Who knows whether all the souls in purgatory wish to be bought out
+of it, as in the legend of Sts. Severinus and Paschal.
+
+30. No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much less that
+he has attained full remission.
+
+31. Rare as is the man that is truly penitent, so rare is also the man
+who truly buys indulgences, i.e., such men are most rare.
+
+32. They will be condemned eternally, together with their teachers, who
+believe themselves sure of their salvation because they have letters of
+pardon.
+
+33. Men must be on their guard against those who say that the pope's
+pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to
+Him;
+
+34. For these "graces of pardon" concern only the penalties of
+sacramental satisfaction, and these are appointed by man.
+
+35. They preach no Christian doctrine who teach that contrition is not
+necessary in those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy
+confessionalia.
+
+36. Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of
+penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon.
+
+37. Every true Christian, whether living or dead, has part in all the
+blessings of Christ and the Church; and this is granted him by God,
+even without letters of pardon.
+
+38. Nevertheless, the remission and participation [in the blessings of
+the Church] which are granted by the pope are in no way to be despised,
+for they are, as I have said, the declaration of divine remission.
+
+39. It is most difficult, even for the very keenest theologians, at one
+and the same time to commend to the people the abundance of pardons and
+[the need of] true contrition.
+
+40. True contrition seeks and loves penalties, but liberal pardons only
+relax penalties and cause them to be hated, or at least, furnish an
+occasion [for hating them].
+
+41. Apostolic pardons are to be preached with caution, lest the people
+may falsely think them preferable to other good works of love.
+
+42. Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend the
+buying of pardons to be compared in any way to works of mercy.
+
+43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends
+to the needy does a better work than buying pardons;
+
+44. Because love grows by works of love, and man becomes better; but by
+pardons man does not grow better, only more free from penalty.
+
+45. Christians are to be taught that he who sees a man in need, and
+passes him by, and gives [his money] for pardons, purchases not the
+indulgences of the pope, but the indignation of God.
+
+46. Christians are to be taught that unless they have more than they
+need, they are bound to keep back what is necessary for their own
+families, and by no means to squander it on pardons.
+
+47. Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter
+of free will, and not of commandment.
+
+48. Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting pardons,
+needs, and therefore desires, their devout prayer for him more than the
+money they bring.
+
+49. Christians are to be taught that the pope's pardons are useful, if
+they do not put their trust in them; but altogether harmful, if through
+them they lose their fear of God.
+
+50. Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of
+the pardon-preachers, he would rather that St.  Peter's church should
+go to ashes, than that it should be built up with the skin, flesh and
+bones of his sheep.
+
+51. Christians are to be taught that it would be the pope's wish, as it
+is his duty, to give of his own money to very many of those from whom
+certain hawkers of pardons cajole money, even though the church of St.
+Peter might have to be sold.
+
+52. The assurance of salvation by letters of pardon is vain, even
+though the commissary, nay, even though the pope himself, were to stake
+his soul upon it.
+
+53. They are enemies of Christ and of the pope, who bid the Word of God
+be altogether silent in some Churches, in order that pardons may be
+preached in others.
+
+54. Injury is done the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal
+or a longer time is spent on pardons than on this Word.
+
+55. It must be the intention of the pope that if pardons, which are a
+very small thing, are celebrated with one bell, with single processions
+and ceremonies, then the Gospel, which is the very greatest thing,
+should be preached with a hundred bells, a hundred processions, a
+hundred ceremonies.
+
+56. The "treasures of the Church," out of which the pope grants
+indulgences, are not sufficiently named or known among the people of
+Christ.
+
+57. That they are not temporal treasures is certainly evident, for many
+of the vendors do not pour out such treasures so easily, but only
+gather them.
+
+58. Nor are they the merits of Christ and the Saints, for even without
+the pope, these always work grace for the inner man, and the cross,
+death, and hell for the outward man.
+
+59. St. Lawrence said that the treasures of the Church were the
+Church's poor, but he spoke according to the usage of the word in his
+own time.
+
+60. Without rashness we say that the keys of the Church, given by
+Christ's merit, are that treasure;
+
+61. For it is clear that for the remission of penalties and of reserved
+cases, the power of the pope is of itself sufficient.
+
+62. The true treasure of the Church is the Most Holy Gospel of the
+glory and the grace of God.
+
+63. But this treasure is naturally most odious, for it makes the first
+to be last.
+
+64. On the other hand, the treasure of indulgences is naturally most
+acceptable, for it makes the last to be first.
+
+65. Therefore the treasures of the Gospel are nets with which they
+formerly were wont to fish for men of riches.
+
+66. The treasures of the indulgences are nets with which they now fish
+for the riches of men.
+
+67. The indulgences which the preachers cry as the "greatest graces"
+are known to be truly such, in so far as they promote gain.
+
+68. Yet they are in truth the very smallest graces compared with the
+grace of God and the piety of the Cross.
+
+69. Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of
+apostolic pardons, with all reverence.
+
+70. But still more are they bound to strain all their eyes and attend
+with all their ears, lest these men preach their own dreams instead of
+the commission of the pope.
+
+71. He who speaks against the truth of apostolic pardons, let him be
+anathema and accursed!
+
+72. But he who guards against the lust and license of the
+pardon-preachers, let him be blessed!
+
+73. The pope justly thunders against those who, by any art, contrive
+the injury of the traffic in pardons.
+
+74. But much more does he intend to thunder against those who use the
+pretext of pardons to contrive the injury of holy love and truth.
+
+75. To think the papal pardons so great that they could absolve a man
+even if he had committed an impossible sin and violated the Mother of
+God--this is madness.
+
+76. We say, on the contrary, that the papal pardons are not able to
+remove the very least of venial sins, so far as its guilt is concerned.
+
+77. It is said that even St. Peter, if he were now Pope, could not
+bestow greater graces; this is blasphemy against St. Peter and against
+the pope.
+
+78. We say, on the contrary, that even the present pope, and any pope
+at all, has greater graces at his disposal; to wit, the Gospel, powers,
+gifts of healing, etc., as it is written in I. Corinthians xii.
+
+79. To say that the cross, emblazoned with the papal arms, which is set
+up [by the preachers of indulgences], is of equal worth with the Cross
+of Christ, is blasphemy.
+
+80. The bishops, curates and theologians who allow such talk to be
+spread among the people, will have an account to render.  81. This
+unbridled preaching of pardons makes it no easy matter, even for
+learned men, to rescue the reverence due to the pope from slander, or
+even from the shrewd questionings of the laity.
+
+82. To wit:--"Why does not the pope empty purgatory, for the sake of
+holy love and of the dire need of the souls that are there, if he
+redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake of miserable money
+with which to build a Church? The former reasons would be most just;
+the latter is most trivial."
+
+83. Again:--"Why are mortuary and anniversary masses for the dead
+continued, and why does he not return or permit the withdrawal of the
+endowments founded on their behalf, since it is wrong to pray for the
+redeemed?"
+
+84. Again:--"What is this new piety of God and the pope, that for money
+they allow a man who is impious and their enemy to buy out of purgatory
+the pious soul of a friend of God, and do not rather, because of that
+pious and beloved soul's own need, free it for pure love's sake?"
+
+85. Again:--"Why are the penitential canons long since in actual fact
+and through disuse abrogated and dead, now satisfied by the granting of
+indulgences, as though they were still alive and in force?"
+
+86. Again:--"Why does not the pope, whose wealth is to-day greater than
+the riches of the richest, build just this one church of St. Peter with
+his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers?"
+
+87. Again:--"What is it that the pope remits, and what participation
+does he grant to those who, by perfect contrition, have a right to full
+remission and participation?"
+
+88. Again:--"What greater blessing could come to the Church than if the
+pope were to do a hundred times a day what he now does once, and bestow
+on every believer these remissions and participations?"
+
+89. "Since the pope, by his pardons, seeks the salvation of souls
+rather than money, why does he suspend the indulgences and pardons
+granted heretofore, since these have equal efficacy?"
+
+90. To repress these arguments and scruples of the laity by force
+alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to expose the
+Church and the pope to the ridicule of their enemies, and to make
+Christians unhappy.
+
+91. If, therefore, pardons were preached according to the spirit and
+mind of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved; nay, they
+would not exist.
+
+92. Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people of
+Christ, "Peace, peace," and there is no peace!
+
+93. Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of Christ,
+"Cross, cross," and there is no cross!
+
+94. Christians are to be exhorted that they be diligent in following
+Christ, their Head, through penalties, deaths, and hell;
+
+95. And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather through many
+tribulations, than through the assurance of peace.
+
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+Amore et studio elucidande veritatis hec subscripta disputabuntur
+Wittenberge, Presidente R. P. Martino Lutther, Artium et S.  Theologie
+Magistro eiusdemque ibidem lectore Ordinario. Quare petit, ut qui non
+possunt verbis presentes nobiscum disceptare agant id literis absentes.
+In nomine domini nostri Hiesu Christi.  Amen.
+
+1. Dominus et magister noster Iesus Christus dicendo 'Penitentiam agite
+&c.' omnem vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit.  2. Quod verbum de
+penitentia sacramentali (id est confessionis et satisfactionis, que
+sacerdotum ministerio celebratur) non potest intelligi.
+
+3. Non tamen solam intendit interiorem, immo interior nulla est, nisi
+foris operetur varias carnis mortificationes.
+
+4. Manet itaque pena, donec manet odium sui (id est penitentia vera
+intus), scilicet usque ad introitum regni celorum.
+
+5. Papa non vult nec potest ullas penas remittere preter eas, quas
+arbitrio vel suo vel canonum imposuit.
+
+6. Papa non potest remittere ullam culpam nisi declarando, et
+approbando remissam a deo Aut certe remittendo casus reservatos sibi,
+quibus contemptis culpa prorsus remaneret.
+
+7. Nulli prorus remittit deus culpam, quin simul eum subiiciat
+humiliatum in omnibus sacerdoti suo vicario.
+
+8. Canones penitentiales solum viventibus sunt impositi nihilque
+morituris secundum eosdem debet imponi.
+
+9. Inde bene nobis facit spiritussanctus in papa excipiendo in suis
+decretis semper articulum mortis et necessitatis.
+
+10. Indocte et male faciunt sacerdotes ii, qui morituris penitentias
+canonicas in purgatorium reservant.
+
+11. Zizania illa de mutanda pena Canonica in penam purgatorii videntur
+certe dormientibus episcopis seminata.
+
+12. Olim pene canonice non post, sed ante absolutionem imponebantur
+tanquam tentamenta vere contritionis.
+
+13. Morituri per mortem omnia solvunt et legibus canonum mortui iam
+sunt, habentes iure earum relaxationem.
+
+14. Imperfecta sanitas seu charitas morituri necessario secum fert
+magnum timorem, tantoque maiorem, quanto minor fuerit ipsa.
+
+15. Hic timor et horror satis est se solo (ut alia taceam) facere penam
+purgatorii, cum sit proximus desperationis horrori.
+
+16. Videntur infernus, purgaturium, celum differre, sicut desperatio,
+prope desperatio, securitas differunt.
+
+17. Necessarium videtur animabus in purgatorio sicut minni horrorem ita
+augeri charitatem.
+
+18. Nec probatum videtur ullis aut rationibus aut scripturis, quod sint
+extra statum meriti seu augende charitatis.
+
+19. Nec hoc probatum esse videtur, quod sint de sua beatitudine certe
+et secure, saltem omnes, licet nos certissimi simus.  20. Igitur papa
+per remissionem plenariam omnium penarum non simpliciter omnium
+intelligit, sed a seipso tantummodo impositarum.
+
+21. Errant itaque indulgentiarum predicatores ii, qui dicunt per pape
+indulgentias hominem ab omni pena solvi et salvari.
+
+22. Quin nullam remittit animabus in purgatorio, quam in hac vita
+debuissent secundum Canones solvere.
+
+23. Si remissio ulla omnium omnino penarum potest alicui dari, certum
+est eam non nisi perfectissimis, i.e. paucissimis, dari.
+
+24. Falli ob id necesse est maiorem partem populi per indifferentem
+illam et magnificam pene solute promissionem.
+
+25. Qualem potestatem habet papa in purgatorium generaliter, talem
+habet quilibet Episcopus et Curatus in sua diocesi et parochia
+specialiter.
+
+1. [26] Optime facit papa, quod non potestate clavis (quam nullam
+habet) sed per modum suffragii dat animabus remissionem.
+
+2. [27] Hominem predicant, qui statim ut iactus nummus in cistam
+tinnierit evolare dicunt animam.
+
+3. [28] Certum est, nummo in cistam tinniente augeri questum et
+avariciam posse: suffragium autem ecclesie est in arbitrio dei solius.
+
+4. [29] Quis scit, si omnes anime in purgatorio velint redimi, sicut de
+s. Severino et Paschali factum narratur.
+
+5. [30] Nullus securus est de veritate sue contritionis, multominus de
+consecutione plenarie remissionis.
+
+6. [31] Quam rarus est vere penitens, tam rarus est vere indulgentias
+redimens, i. e. rarissimus.
+
+7. [32] Damnabuntur ineternum cum suis magistris, qui per literas
+veniarum securos sese credunt de sua salute.
+
+8. [33] Cavendi sunt nimis, qui dicunt venias illas Pape donum esse
+illud dei inestimabile, quo reconciliatur homo deo.
+
+9. [34] Gratie enim ille veniales tantum respiciunt penas
+satisfactionis sacramentalis ab homine constitutas.
+
+10. [35] Non christiana predicant, qui docent, quod redempturis animas
+vel confessionalia non sit necessaria contritio.
+
+11. [36] Quilibet christianus vere compunctus habet remissionem
+plenariam a pena et culpa etiam sine literis veniarum sibi debitam.
+
+12. [37] Quilibet versus christianus, sive vivus sive mortuus, habet
+participationem omnium bonorum Christi et Ecclesie etiam sine literis
+veniarum a deo sibi datam.
+
+13. [38] Remissio tamen et participatio Pape nullo modo est
+contemnenda, quia (ut dixi) est declaratio remissionis divine.
+
+14. [39] Difficillimum est etiam doctissimis Theologis simul extollere
+veniarum largitatem et contritionis veritatem coram populo.
+
+15. [40] Contritionis veritas penas querit et amat, Veniarum autem
+largitas relaxat et odisse facit, saltem occasione.
+
+16. [41] Caute sunt venie apostolice predicande, ne populus false
+intelligat eas preferri ceteris bonis operibus charitatis.
+
+17. [42] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Pape mens non est, redemptionem
+veniarum ulla ex parte comparandam esse operibus misericordie.
+
+18. [43] Docendi sunt christiani, quod dans pauperi aut mutuans egenti
+melius facit quam si venias redimereet.
+
+19. [44] Quia per opus charitatis crescit charitas et fit homo melior,
+sed per venias non fit melior sed tantummodo a pena liberior.
+
+20. [45] Docendi sunt christiani, quod, qui videt egenum et neglecto eo
+dat pro veniis, non idulgentias Pape sed indignationem dei sibi
+vendicat.
+
+21. [46] Docendi sunt christiani, quod nisi superfluis abundent
+necessaria tenentur domui sue retinere et nequaquam propter venias
+effundere.
+
+22. [47] Docendi sunt christiani, quod redemptio veniarum est libera,
+non precepta.
+
+23. [48] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Papa sicut magis eget ita magis
+optat in veniis dandis pro se devotam orationem quam promptam pecuniam.
+
+24. [49] Docendi sunt christiani, quod venie Pape sunt utiles, si non
+in cas confidant, Sed nocentissime, si timorem dei per eas amittant.
+
+25. [50] Docendi sunt christiani, quod si Papa nosset exactiones
+venialium predicatorum, mallet Basilicam s. Petri in cineres ire quam
+edificari cute, carne et ossibus ovium suarum.
+
+1. [51] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Papa sicut debet ita vellet,
+etiam vendita (si opus sit) Basilicam s. Petri, de suis pecuniis dare
+illis, a quorum plurimis quidam concionatores veniarum pecuniam
+eliciunt.
+
+2. [52] Vana est fiducia salutis per literas veniarum, etiam si
+Commissarius, immo Papa ipse suam animam pro illis impigneraret.  3.
+[53] Hostes Christi et Pape sunt ii, qui propter venias predicandas
+verbum dei in aliis ecclesiis penitus silere iubent.
+
+4. [54] Iniuria fit verbo dei, dum in eodem sermone equale vel longius
+tempus impenditur veniis quam illi.
+
+5. [55] Mens Pape necessario est, quod, si venie (quod minimum est) una
+campana, unis pompis et ceremoniis celebrantur, Euangelium (quod
+maximum est) centum campanis, centum pompis, centum ceremoniis
+predicetur.
+
+6. [56] Thesauri ecclesie, unde Pape dat indulgentias, neque satis
+nominati sunt neque cogniti apud populum Christi.
+
+7. [57] Temporales certe non esse patet, quod non tam facile eos
+profundunt, sed tantummodo colligunt multi  concionatorum.
+
+8. [58] Nec sunt merita Christi et sanctorum, quia hec semper sine Papa
+operantur gratiam hominis interioris et crucem, mortem infernumque
+exterioris.
+
+9. [59] Thesauros ecclesie s. Laurentius dixit esse pauperes ecclesie,
+sed locutus est usu vocabuli suo tempore.
+
+10. [60] Sine temeritate dicimus claves ecclesie (merito Christi
+donatas) esse thesaurum istum.
+
+11. [61] Clarum est enim, quod ad remissionem penarum et casuum sola
+sufficit potestas Pape.
+
+12. [62] Verus thesaurus ecclesie est sacrosanctum euangelium glorie et
+gratie dei.
+
+13. [63] Hic autem est merito odiosissimus, quia ex primis facit
+novissimos.
+
+14. [64] Thesaurus autem indulgentiarum merito est gratissimus, quia ex
+novissimis facit primos.
+
+15. [65] Igitur thesauri Euangelici rhetia sunt, quibus olim
+piscabantur viros divitiarum.
+
+16. [66] Thesauri indulgentiarum rhetia sunt, quibus nunc piscantur
+divitias virorum.
+
+17. [67] Indulgentie, quas concionatores vociferantur maximas gratias,
+intelliguntur vere tales quoad questum promovendum.
+
+18. [68] Sunt tamen re vera minime ad gratiam dei et crucis pietatem
+comparate.
+
+19. [69] Tenentur Episcopi et Curati veniarum apostolicarum
+Commissarios cum omni reverentia admittere.  20. [70] Sed magis
+tenentur omnibus oculis intendere, omnibus auribus advertere, ne pro
+commissione Pape sua illi somnia predicent.  21. [71] Contra veniarum
+apostolicarum veritatem qui loquitur, sit ille anathema et maledictus.
+
+22. [72] Qui vero, contra libidinem ac licentiam verborum Concionatoris
+veniarum curam agit, sit ille benedictus.
+
+23. [73] Sicut Papa iuste fulminat eos, qui in fraudem negocii veniarum
+quacunque arte machinantur,
+
+24. [74] Multomagnis fulminare intendit eos, qui per veniarum pretextum
+in fraudem sancte charitatis et veritatis machinantur,
+
+25. [75] Opinari venias papales tantas esse, ut solvere possint
+hominem, etiam si quis per impossibile dei genitricem violasset, Est
+insanire.
+
+1. [76] Dicimus contra, quod venie papales nec minimum venialium
+peccatorum tollere possint quo ad culpam.
+
+2. [77] Quod dicitur, nec si s. Petrus modo Papa esset maiores gratias
+donare posset, est blasphemia in sanctum Petrum et Papam.
+
+3. [78] Dicimus contra, quod etiam iste et quilibet papa maiores habet,
+scilicet Euangelium, virtutes, gratias, curationum &c. ut 1. Co. XII.
+
+4. [79] Dicere, Crucem armis papalibus insigniter erectam cruci Christi
+equivalere, blasphemia est.
+
+5. [80] Rationem reddent Episcopi, Curati et Theologi, Qui tales
+sermones in populum licere sinunt.
+
+6. [81] Facit hec licentiosa veniarum predicatio, ut nec reverentiam
+Pape facile sit etiam doctis viris redimere a calumniis aut certe
+argutis questionibus laicorm.
+
+7. [82] Scilicet. Cur Papa non evacuat purgatorium propter sanctissimam
+charitatem et summam animarum necessitatem ut causam omnium
+iustissimam, Si infinitas animas redimit propter pecuniam funestissimam
+ad structuram Basilice ut causam levissimam?
+
+8. [83] Item. Cur permanent exequie et anniversaria defunctorum et non
+reddit aut recipi permittit beneficia pro illis instituta, cum iam sit
+iniuria pro redemptis orare?
+
+9. [84] Item. Que illa nova pietas Dei et Pape, quod impio et inimico
+propter pecuniam concedunt animam piam et amicam dei redimere, Et tamen
+propter necessitatem ipsius met pie et dilecte anime non redimunt eam
+gratuita charitate?
+
+10. [85] Item. Cur Canones penitentiales re ipsa et non usu iam diu in
+semet abrogati et mortui adhuc tamen pecuniis redimuntur per
+concessionem indulgentiarum tanquam vivacissimi?
+
+11. [86] Item. Cur Papa, cuius opes hodie sunt opulentissimis Crassis
+crassiores, non de suis pecuniis magis quam pauperum fidelium struit
+unam tantummodo Basilicam sancti Petri?
+
+12. [87] Item. Quid remittit aut participat Papa iis, qui per
+contritionem perfectam ius habent plenarie remissionis et
+participationis?
+
+13. [88] Item. Quid adderetur ecclesie boni maioris, Si Papa, sicut
+semel facit, ita centies in die cuilibet fidelium has remissiones et
+participationes tribueret?
+
+14. [89] Ex quo Papa salutem querit animarum per venias magis quam
+pecunias, Cur suspendit literas et venias iam olim concessas, cum sint
+eque efficaces?
+
+15. [90] Hec scrupulosissima laicorum argumenta sola potestate
+compescere nec reddita ratione diluere, Est ecclesiam et Papam hostibus
+ridendos exponere et infelices christianos facere.
+
+16. [91] Si ergo venie secundum spiritum et mentem Pape predicarentur,
+facile illa omnia solverentur, immo non essent.
+
+17. [92] Valeant itaque omnes illi prophete, qui dicunt populo Christi
+'Pax pax,' et non est pax.
+
+18. [93] Bene agant omnes illi prophete, qui dicunt populo Christi
+'Crux crux,' et non est crux.
+
+19. [94] Exhortandi sunt Christiani, ut caput suum Christum per penas,
+mortes infernosque sequi studeant,
+
+20. [95] Ac sic magis per multas tribulationes intrare celum quam per
+securitatem pacis confidant.
+
+M.D.Xvii.
+
+
+
+
+
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+Martin Luther's 95 Theses
+Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther
+on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
+by Dr. Martin Luther, 1517
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+Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther
+on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
+by Dr. Martin Luther, 1517
+Published in:
+Works of Martin Luther
+Adolph Spaeth, L.D. Reed, Henry Eyster Jacobs, et Al., Trans. & Eds.
+(Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1915), Vol. 1, pp. 29-38.
+
+DISPUTATION OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER 
+ON THE POWER AND EFFICACY OF 
+INDULGENCES 
+
+OCTOBER 31, 1517 
+
+Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, 
+the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, 
+under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, 
+Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in 
+Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that 
+those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, 
+may do so by letter.  
+
+In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.  
+
+1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam 
+agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be 
+repentance.  
+
+2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, 
+i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by 
+the priests.  
+
+3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no 
+inward repentance which does not outwardly work divers 
+mortifications of the flesh.  
+
+4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as 
+hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward 
+repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom 
+of heaven. 
+
+5. The pope does not intend to remit, and cannot remit any 
+penalties other than those which he has imposed either by his 
+own authority or by that of the Canons. 
+
+6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that 
+it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God's 
+remission; though, to be sure, he may grant remission in cases 
+reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in 
+such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely 
+unforgiven.  
+
+7. God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same 
+time, humble in all things and bring into subjection to His 
+vicar, the priest.  
+8. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, 
+according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying.  
+
+9. Therefore the Holy Spirit in the pope is kind to us, 
+because in his decrees he always makes exception of the 
+article of death and of necessity. 
+
+10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, 
+in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for 
+purgatory.  
+
+11. This changing of the canonical penalty to the penalty of 
+purgatory is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown 
+while the bishops slept.  
+
+12. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not 
+after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition.  
+
+13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are 
+already dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be 
+released from them. 
+
+14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the 
+imperfect love, of the dying brings with it, of necessity, 
+great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater is the fear.  
+
+15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say 
+nothing of other things) to constitute the penalty of 
+purgatory, since it is very near to the horror of despair.  
+
+16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ as do despair, 
+almost-despair, and the assurance of safety.  
+
+17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror 
+should grow less and love increase.  
+
+18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that 
+they are outside the state of merit, that is to say, of 
+increasing love.  
+
+19. Again, it seems unproved that they, or at least that all 
+of them, are certain or assured of their own blessedness, 
+though we may be quite certain of it.  
+
+20. Therefore by "full remission of all penalties" the pope 
+means not actually "of all," but only of those imposed by 
+himself.  
+
+21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who 
+say that by the pope's indulgences a man is freed from every 
+penalty, and saved;  
+
+22. Whereas he remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, 
+according to the canons, they would have had to pay in this 
+life.  
+23. If it is at all possible to grant to any one the remission 
+of all penalties whatsoever, it is certain that this remission 
+can be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to the very 
+fewest.  
+
+24. It must needs be, therefore, that the greater part of the 
+people are deceived by that indiscriminate and highsounding 
+promise of release from penalty.  
+
+25. The power which the pope has, in a general way, over 
+purgatory, is just like the power which any bishop or curate 
+has, in a special way, within his own diocese or parish.  
+
+26. The pope does well when he grants remission to souls [in 
+purgatory], not by the power of the keys (which he does not 
+possess), but by way of intercession.  
+
+27. They preach man who say that so soon as the penny jingles 
+into the money-box, the soul flies out [of purgatory]. 
+
+28. It is certain that when the penny jingles into the 
+money-box, gain and avarice can be increased, but the result 
+of the intercession of the Church is in the power of God 
+alone.  
+
+29. Who knows whether all the souls in purgatory wish to be 
+bought out of it, as in the legend of Sts. Severinus and 
+Paschal.  
+
+30. No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much 
+less that he has attained full remission.  
+
+31. Rare as is the man that is truly penitent, so rare is also 
+the man who truly buys indulgences, i.e., such men are most 
+rare.  
+
+32. They will be condemned eternally, together with their 
+teachers, who believe themselves sure of their salvation 
+because they have letters of pardon. 
+
+33. Men must be on their guard against those who say that the 
+pope's pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man 
+is reconciled to Him;  
+
+34. For these "graces of pardon" concern only the penalties of 
+sacramental satisfaction, and these are appointed by man. 
+
+35. They preach no Christian doctrine who teach that 
+contrition is not necessary in those who intend to buy souls 
+out of purgatory or to buy confessionalia.  
+
+36. Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full 
+remission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of 
+pardon.  
+
+37. Every true Christian, whether living or dead, has part in 
+all the blessings of Christ and the Church; and this is 
+granted him by God, even without letters of pardon.  
+
+38. Nevertheless, the remission and participation [in the 
+blessings of the Church] which are granted by the pope are in 
+no way to be despised, for they are, as I have said, the 
+declaration of divine remission.  
+
+39. It is most difficult, even for the very keenest 
+theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people 
+the abundance of pardons and [the need of] true contrition.  
+
+40. True contrition seeks and loves penalties, but liberal 
+pardons only relax penalties and cause them to be hated, or at 
+least, furnish an occasion [for hating them].  
+
+41. Apostolic pardons are to be preached with caution, lest 
+the people may falsely think them preferable to other good 
+works of love.  
+
+42. Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend 
+the buying of pardons to be compared in any way to works of 
+mercy.  
+
+43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor 
+or lends to the needy does a better work than buying pardons;  
+
+44. Because love grows by works of love, and man becomes 
+better; but by pardons man does not grow better, only more 
+free from penalty.  
+
+45. Christians are to be taught that he who sees a man in 
+need, and passes him by, and gives [his money] for pardons, 
+purchases not the indulgences of the pope, but the indignation 
+of God.  
+
+46. Christians are to be taught that unless they have more 
+than they need, they are bound to keep back what is necessary 
+for their own families, and by no means to squander it on 
+pardons.  
+
+47. Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is 
+a matter of free will, and not of commandment.  
+
+48. Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting 
+pardons, needs, and therefore desires, their devout prayer for 
+him more than the money they bring.  
+
+49. Christians are to be taught that the pope's pardons are 
+useful, if they do not put their trust in them; but altogether 
+harmful, if through them they lose their fear of God. 
+
+50. Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the 
+exactions of the pardon-preachers, he would rather that St. 
+Peter's church should go to ashes, than that it should be 
+built up with the skin, flesh and bones of his sheep.  
+
+51. Christians are to be taught that it would be the pope's 
+wish, as it is his duty, to give of his own money to very many 
+of those from whom certain hawkers of pardons cajole money, 
+even though the church of St. Peter might have to be sold.  
+
+52. The assurance of salvation by letters of pardon is vain, 
+even though the commissary, nay, even though the pope himself, 
+were to stake his soul upon it.  
+
+53. They are enemies of Christ and of the pope, who bid the 
+Word of God be altogether silent in some Churches, in order 
+that pardons may be preached in others.  
+
+54. Injury is done the Word of God when, in the same sermon, 
+an equal or a longer time is spent on pardons than on this 
+Word. 
+
+55. It must be the intention of the pope that if pardons, 
+which are a very small thing, are celebrated with one bell, 
+with single processions and ceremonies, then the Gospel, which 
+is the very greatest thing, should be preached with a hundred 
+bells, a hundred processions, a hundred ceremonies. 
+
+56. The "treasures of the Church," out of which the pope. 
+grants indulgences, are not sufficiently named or known among 
+the people of Christ.  
+
+57. That they are not temporal treasures is certainly evident, 
+for many of the vendors do not pour out such treasures so 
+easily, but only gather them.  
+
+58. Nor are they the merits of Christ and the Saints, for even 
+without the pope, these always work grace for the inner man, 
+and the cross, death, and hell for the outward man. 
+
+59. St. Lawrence said that the treasures of the Church were 
+the Church's poor, but he spoke according to the usage of the 
+word in his own time.  
+
+60. Without rashness we say that the keys of the Church, given 
+by Christ's merit, are that treasure;  
+
+61. For it is clear that for the remission of penalties and of 
+reserved cases, the power of the pope is of itself sufficient.  
+
+62. The true treasure of the Church is the Most Holy Gospel of 
+the glory and the grace of God.  
+
+63. But this treasure is naturally most odious, for it makes 
+the first to be last.  
+
+64. On the other hand, the treasure of indulgences is 
+naturally most acceptable, for it makes the last to be first.  
+
+65. Therefore the treasures of the Gospel are nets with which 
+they formerly were wont to fish for men of riches.  
+
+66. The treasures of the indulgences are nets with which they 
+now fish for the riches of men.  
+
+67. The indulgences which the preachers cry as the "greatest 
+graces" are known to be truly such, in so far as they promote 
+gain. 
+
+68. Yet they are in truth the very smallest graces compared 
+with the grace of God and the piety of the Cross.  
+
+69. Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of 
+apostolic pardons, with all reverence.  
+
+70. But still more are they bound to strain all their eyes and 
+attend with all their ears, lest these men preach their own 
+dreams instead of the commission of the pope.  
+
+71 . He who speaks against the truth of apostolic pardons, let 
+him be anathema and accursed!  
+
+72. But he who guards against the lust and license of the 
+pardon-preachers, let him be blessed! 
+
+73. The pope justly thunders against those who, by any art, 
+contrive the injury of the traffic in pardons.  
+
+74. But much more does he intend to thunder against those who 
+use the pretext of pardons to contrive the injury of holy love 
+and truth.  
+
+75. To think the papal pardons so great that they could 
+absolve a man even if he had committed an impossible sin and 
+violated the Mother of God -- this is madness. 
+
+76. We say, on the contrary, that the papal pardons are not 
+able to remove the very least of venial sins, so far as its 
+guilt is concerned. 
+
+77. It is said that even St. Peter, if he were now Pope, could 
+not bestow greater graces; this is blasphemy against St. Peter 
+and against the pope.  
+
+78. We say, on the contrary, that even the present pope, and 
+any pope at all, has greater graces at his disposal; to wit, 
+the Gospel, powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written 
+in I. Corinthians xii.  
+
+79. To say that the cross, emblazoned with the papal arms, 
+which is set up [by the preachers of indulgences], is of equal 
+worth with the Cross of Christ, is blasphemy.  
+
+80. The bishops, curates and theologians who allow such talk 
+to be spread among the people, will have an account to render.  
+81. This unbridled preaching of pardons makes it no easy 
+matter, even for learned men, to rescue the reverence due to 
+the pope from slander, or even from the shrewd questionings of 
+the laity.  
+
+82. To wit: -- "Why does not the pope empty purgatory, for the 
+sake of holy love and of the dire need of the souls that are 
+there, if he redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake 
+of miserable money with which to build a Church? The former 
+reasons would be most just; the latter is most trivial."  
+
+83. Again: -- "Why are mortuary and anniversary masses for the 
+dead continued, and why does he not return or permit the 
+withdrawal of the endowments founded on their behalf, since it 
+is wrong to pray for the redeemed?"  
+
+84. Again: -- "What is this new piety of God and the pope, 
+that for money they allow a man who is impious and their enemy 
+to buy out of purgatory the pious soul of a friend of God, and 
+do not rather, because of that pious and beloved soul's own 
+need, free it for pure love's sake?"  
+
+85. Again: -- "Why are the penitential canons long since in 
+actual fact and through disuse abrogated and dead, now 
+satisfied by the granting of indulgences, as though they were 
+still alive and in force?"  
+
+86. Again: -- "Why does not the pope, whose wealth is to-day 
+greater than the riches of the richest, build just this one 
+church of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with the 
+money of poor believers?"  
+
+87. Again: -- "What is it that the pope remits, and what 
+participation does he grant to those who, by perfect 
+contrition, have a right to full remission and participation?" 
+
+88. Again: -- "What greater blessing could come to the Church 
+than if the pope were to do a hundred times a day what he now 
+does once, and bestow on every believer these remissions and 
+participations?"  
+
+89. "Since the pope, by his pardons, seeks the salvation of 
+souls rather than money, why does he suspend the indulgences 
+and pardons granted heretofore, since these have equal 
+efficacy?" 
+
+90. To repress these arguments and scruples of the laity by 
+force alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to 
+expose the Church and the pope to the ridicule of their 
+enemies, and to make Christians unhappy.  
+
+91. If, therefore, pardons were preached according to the 
+spirit and mind of the pope, all these doubts would be readily 
+resolved; nay, they would not exist.  
+
+92. Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people 
+of Christ, "Peace, peace," and there is no peace!  
+
+93. Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of 
+Christ, "Cross, cross," and there is no cross! 
+
+94. Christians are to be exhorted that they be diligent in 
+following Christ, their Head, through penalties, deaths, and 
+hell;  
+
+95. And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather 
+through many tribulations, than through the assurance of 
+peace. 
+
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+``Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum.''
+by Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546
+D. MARTIN LUTHERS WERKE: KRITISCHE GESAMMTAUSGABE.
+1. Band (Weimar: Hermann Boehlau, 1883). pp. 233-238.
+PW #001-001La
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+Amore et studio elucidande veritatis hec subscripta disputabuntur
+Wittenberge, Presidente R. P. Martino Lutther, Artium et S.
+Theologie Magistro eiusdemque ibidem lectore Ordinario. Quare
+petit, ut qui non possunt verbis presentes nobiscum disceptare
+agant id literis absentes. In nomine domini nostri Hiesu Christi.
+Amen.
+
+1. Dominus et magister noster Iesus Christus dicendo `Penitentiam
+agite &c.' omnem vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit.
+2. Quod verbum de penitentia sacramentali (id est confessionis et
+satisfactionis, que sacerdotum ministerio celebratur) non potest
+intelligi.
+
+3. Non tamen solam intendit interiorem, immo interior nulla est,
+nisi foris operetur varias carnis mortificationes.
+
+4. Manet itaque pena, donec manet odium sui (id est penitentia
+vera intus), scilicet usque ad introitum regni celorum.
+
+5. Papa non vult nec potest ullas penas remittere preter eas, quas
+arbitrio vel suo vel canonum imposuit.
+
+6. Papa non potest remittere ullam culpam nisi declarando, et
+approbando remissam a deo Aut certe remittendo casus reservatos
+sibi, quibus contemptis culpa prorsus remaneret.
+
+7. Nulli prorus remittit deus culpam, quin simul eum subiiciat
+humiliatum in omnibus sacerdoti suo vicario.
+
+8. Canones penitentiales solum viventibus sunt impositi nihilque
+morituris secundum eosdem debet imponi.
+
+9. Inde bene nobis facit spiritussanctus in papa excipiendo in
+suis decretis semper articulum mortis et necessitatis.
+
+10. Indocte et male faciunt sacerdotes ii, qui morituris
+penitentias canonicas in purgatorium reservant.
+
+11. Zizania illa de mutanda pena Canonica in penam purgatorii
+videntur certe dormientibus episcopis seminata.
+
+12. Olim pene canonice non post, sed ante absolutionem
+imponebantur tanquam tentamenta vere contritionis.
+
+13. Morituri per mortem omnia solvunt et legibus canonum mortui
+iam sunt, habentes iure earum relaxationem.
+
+14. Imperfecta sanitas seu charitas morituri necessario secum fert
+magnum timorem, tantoque maiorem, quanto minor fuerit ipsa.
+
+15. Hic timor et horror satis est se solo (ut alia taceam) facere
+penam purgatorii, cum sit proximus desperationis horrori.
+
+16. Videntur infernus, purgaturium, celum differre, sicut
+desperatio, prope desperatio, securitas differunt.
+
+17. Necessarium videtur animabus in purgatorio sicut minni
+horrorem ita augeri charitatem.
+
+18. Nec probatum videtur ullis aut rationibus aut scripturis, quod
+sint extra statum meriti seu augende charitatis.
+
+19. Nec hoc probatum esse videtur, quod sint de sua beatitudine
+certe et secure, saltem omnes, licet nos certissimi simus.
+20. Igitur papa per remissionem plenariam omnium penarum non
+simpliciter omnium intelligit, sed a seipso tantummodo
+impositarum.
+
+21. Errant itaque indulgentiarum predicatores ii, qui dicunt per
+pape indulgentias hominem ab omni pena solvi et salvari.
+
+22. Quin nullam remittit animabus in purgatorio, quam in hac vita
+debuissent secundum Canones solvere.
+
+23. Si remissio ulla omnium omnino penarum potest alicui dari,
+certum est eam non nisi perfectissimis, i.e. paucissimis, dari.
+
+24. Falli ob id necesse est maiorem partem populi per
+indifferentem illam et magnificam pene solute promissionem.
+
+25. Qualem potestatem habet papa in purgatorium generaliter, talem
+habet quilibet Episcopus et Curatus in sua diocesi et parochia
+specialiter.
+
+1. [26] Optime facit papa, quod non potestate clavis (quam nullam
+habet) sed per modum suffragii dat animabus remissionem.
+
+2. [27] Hominem predicant, qui statim ut iactus nummus in cistam
+tinnierit evolare dicunt animam.
+
+3. [28] Certum est, nummo in cistam tinniente augeri questum et
+avariciam posse: suffragium autem ecclesie est in arbitrio dei
+solius.
+
+4. [29] Quis scit, si omnes anime in purgatorio velint redimi,
+sicut de s. Severino et Paschali factum narratur.
+
+5. [30] Nullus securus est de veritate sue contritionis,
+multominus de consecutione plenarie remissionis.
+
+6. [31] Quam rarus est vere penitens, tam rarus est vere
+indulgentias redimens, i. e. rarissimus.
+
+7. [32] Damnabuntur ineternum cum suis magistris, qui per literas
+veniarum securos sese credunt de sua salute.
+
+8. [33] Cavendi sunt nimis, qui dicunt venias illas Pape donum
+esse illud dei inestimabile, quo reconciliatur homo deo.
+
+9. [34] Gratie enim ille veniales tantum respiciunt penas
+satisfactionis sacramentalis ab homine constitutas.
+
+10. [35] Non christiana predicant, qui docent, quod redempturis
+animas vel confessionalia non sit necessaria contritio.
+
+11. [36] Quilibet christianus vere compunctus habet remissionem
+plenariam a pena et culpa etiam sine literis veniarum sibi
+debitam.
+
+12. [37] Quilibet versus christianus, sive vivus sive mortuus,
+habet participationem omnium bonorum Christi et Ecclesie etiam
+sine literis veniarum a deo sibi datam.
+
+13. [38] Remissio tamen et participatio Pape nullo modo est
+contemnenda, quia (ut dixi) est declaratio remissionis divine.
+
+14. [39] Difficillimum est etiam doctissimis Theologis simul
+extollere veniarum largitatem et contritionis veritatem coram
+populo.
+
+15. [40] Contritionis veritas penas querit et amat, Veniarum autem
+largitas relaxat et odisse facit, saltem occasione.
+
+16. [41] Caute sunt venie apostolice predicande, ne populus false
+intelligat eas preferri ceteris bonis operibus charitatis.
+
+17. [42] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Pape mens non est,
+redemptionem veniarum ulla ex parte comparandam esse operibus
+misericordie.
+
+18. [43] Docendi sunt christiani, quod dans pauperi aut mutuans
+egenti melius facit quam si venias redimereet.
+
+19. [44] Quia per opus charitatis crescit charitas et fit homo
+melior, sed per venias non fit melior sed tantummodo a pena
+liberior.
+
+20. [45] Docendi sunt christiani, quod, qui videt egenum et
+neglecto eo dat pro veniis, non idulgentias Pape sed indignationem
+dei sibi vendicat.
+
+21. [46] Docendi sunt christiani, quod nisi superfluis abundent
+necessaria tenentur domui sue retinere et nequaquam propter venias
+effundere.
+
+22. [47] Docendi sunt christiani, quod redemptio veniarum est
+libera, non precepta.
+
+23. [48] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Papa sicut magis eget ita
+magis optat in veniis dandis pro se devotam orationem quam
+promptam pecuniam.
+
+24. [49] Docendi sunt christiani, quod venie Pape sunt utiles, si
+non in cas confidant, Sed nocentissime, si timorem dei per eas
+amittant.
+
+25. [50] Docendi sunt christiani, quod si Papa nosset exactiones
+venialium predicatorum, mallet Basilicam s. Petri in cineres ire
+quam edificari cute, carne et ossibus ovium suarum.
+
+1. [51] Docendi sunt christiani, quod Papa sicut debet ita vellet,
+etiam vendita (si opus sit) Basilicam s. Petri, de suis pecuniis
+dare illis, a quorum plurimis quidam concionatores veniarum
+pecuniam eliciunt.
+
+2. [52] Vana est fiducia salutis per literas veniarum, etiam si
+Commissarius, immo Papa ipse suam animam pro illis impigneraret.
+3. [53] Hostes Christi et Pape sunt ii, qui propter venias
+predicandas verbum dei in aliis ecclesiis penitus silere iubent.
+
+4. [54] Iniuria fit verbo dei, dum in eodem sermone equale vel
+longius tempus impenditur veniis quam illi.
+
+5. [55] Mens Pape necessario est, quod, si venie (quod minimum
+est) una campana, unis pompis et ceremoniis celebrantur,
+Euangelium (quod maximum est) centum campanis, centum pompis,
+centum ceremoniis predicetur.
+
+6. [56] Thesauri ecclesie, unde Pape dat indulgentias, neque satis
+nominati sunt neque cogniti apud populum Christi.
+
+7. [57] Temporales certe non esse patet, quod non tam facile eos
+profundunt, sed tantummodo colligunt multi  concionatorum.
+
+8. [58] Nec sunt merita Christi et sanctorum, quia hec semper sine
+Papa operantur gratiam hominis interioris et crucem, mortem
+infernumque exterioris.
+
+9. [59] Thesauros ecclesie s. Laurentius dixit esse pauperes
+ecclesie, sed locutus est usu vocabuli suo tempore.
+
+10. [60] Sine temeritate dicimus claves ecclesie (merito Christi
+donatas) esse thesaurum istum.
+
+11. [61] Clarum est enim, quod ad remissionem penarum et casuum
+sola sufficit potestas Pape.
+
+12. [62] Verus thesaurus ecclesie est sacrosanctum euangelium
+glorie et gratie dei.
+
+13. [63] Hic autem est merito odiosissimus, quia ex primis facit
+novissimos.
+
+14. [64] Thesaurus autem indulgentiarum merito est gratissimus,
+quia ex novissimis facit primos.
+
+15. [65] Igitur thesauri Euangelici rhetia sunt, quibus olim
+piscabantur viros divitiarum.
+
+16. [66] Thesauri indulgentiarum rhetia sunt, quibus nunc
+piscantur divitias virorum.
+
+17. [67] Indulgentie, quas concionatores vociferantur maximas
+gratias, intelliguntur vere tales quoad questum promovendum.
+
+18. [68] Sunt tamen re vera minime ad gratiam dei et crucis
+pietatem comparate.
+
+19. [69] Tenentur Episcopi et Curati veniarum apostolicarum
+Commissarios cum omni reverentia admittere.
+20. [70] Sed magis tenentur omnibus oculis intendere, omnibus
+auribus advertere, ne pro commissione Pape sua illi somnia
+predicent.
+21. [71] Contra veniarum apostolicarum veritatem qui loquitur, sit
+ille anathema et maledictus.
+
+22. [72] Qui vero, contra libidinem ac licentiam verborum
+Concionatoris veniarum curam agit, sit ille benedictus.
+
+23. [73] Sicut Papa iuste fulminat eos, qui in fraudem negocii
+veniarum quacunque arte machinantur,
+
+24. [74] Multomagnis fulminare intendit eos, qui per veniarum
+pretextum in fraudem sancte charitatis et veritatis machinantur,
+
+25. [75] Opinari venias papales tantas esse, ut solvere possint
+hominem, etiam si quis per impossibile dei genitricem violasset,
+Est insanire.
+
+1. [76] Dicimus contra, quod venie papales nec minimum venialium
+peccatorum tollere possint quo ad culpam.
+
+2. [77] Quod dicitur, nec si s. Petrus modo Papa esset maiores
+gratias donare posset, est blasphemia in sanctum Petrum et Papam.
+
+3. [78] Dicimus contra, quod etiam iste et quilibet papa maiores
+habet, scilicet Euangelium, virtutes, gratias, curationum &c. ut
+1. Co. XII.
+
+4. [79] Dicere, Crucem armis papalibus insigniter erectam cruci
+Christi equivalere, blasphemia est.
+
+5. [80] Rationem reddent Episcopi, Curati et Theologi, Qui tales
+sermones in populum licere sinunt.
+
+6. [81] Facit hec licentiosa veniarum predicatio, ut nec
+reverentiam Pape facile sit etiam doctis viris redimere a
+calumniis aut certe argutis questionibus laicorm.
+
+7. [82] Scilicet. Cur Papa non evacuat purgatorium propter
+sanctissimam charitatem et summam animarum necessitatem ut causam
+omnium iustissimam, Si infinitas animas redimit propter pecuniam
+funestissimam ad structuram Basilice ut causam levissimam?
+
+8. [83] Item. Cur permanent exequie et anniversaria defunctorum et
+non reddit aut recipi permittit beneficia pro illis instituta, cum
+iam sit iniuria pro redemptis orare?
+
+9. [84] Item. Que illa nova pietas Dei et Pape, quod impio et
+inimico propter pecuniam concedunt animam piam et amicam dei
+redimere, Et tamen propter necessitatem ipsius met pie et dilecte
+anime non redimunt eam gratuita charitate?
+
+10. [85] Item. Cur Canones penitentiales re ipsa et non usu iam
+diu in semet abrogati et mortui adhuc tamen pecuniis redimuntur
+per concessionem indulgentiarum tanquam vivacissimi?
+
+11. [86] Item. Cur Papa, cuius opes hodie sunt opulentissimis
+Crassis crassiores, non de suis pecuniis magis quam pauperum
+fidelium struit unam tantummodo Basilicam sancti Petri?
+
+12. [87] Item. Quid remittit aut participat Papa iis, qui per
+contritionem perfectam ius habent plenarie remissionis et
+participationis?
+
+13. [88] Item. Quid adderetur ecclesie boni maioris, Si Papa,
+sicut semel facit, ita centies in die cuilibet fidelium has
+remissiones et participationes tribueret?
+
+14. [89] Ex quo Papa salutem querit animarum per venias magis quam
+pecunias, Cur suspendit literas et venias iam olim concessas, cum
+sint eque efficaces?
+
+15. [90] Hec scrupulosissima laicorum argumenta sola potestate
+compescere nec reddita ratione diluere, Est ecclesiam et Papam
+hostibus ridendos exponere et infelices christianos facere.
+
+16. [91] Si ergo venie secundum spiritum et mentem Pape
+predicarentur, facile illa omnia solverentur, immo non essent.
+
+17. [92] Valeant itaque omnes illi prophete, qui dicunt populo
+Christi `Pax pax,' et non est pax.
+
+18. [93] Bene agant omnes illi prophete, qui dicunt populo Christi
+`Crux crux,' et non est crux.
+
+19. [94] Exhortandi sunt Christiani, ut caput suum Christum per
+penas, mortes infernosque sequi studeant,
+
+20. [95] Ac sic magis per multas tribulationes intrare celum quam
+per securitatem pacis confidant.
+
+M.D.Xvii.
+
+
+
+End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Martin Luther's 95 Theses
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