Again, the Lord wills that whoever confesses his sins and believes the absolution should be forgiven. 'No,' says ass-pope fart, 'faith does nothing; but your own repentance and atonement do, as well as the recounting of all your secret, forgotten, and unrecognized sins.'
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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Against The Roman Papacy an Institution of the Devil

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1545

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