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*END*THE SMALL PRINT! FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* This Etext prepared by Rev. Bob Smith The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther Translated by F. Bente and W. H. T. Dau Published in: Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev. Lutheran Church. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 565-773 Preface A Christian, Profitable, and Necessary Preface and Faithful, Earnest Exhortation of Dr. Martin Luther to All Christians, but Especially to All Pastors and Preachers, that They Should Daily Exercise Themselves in the Catechism, which is a Short Summary and Epitome of the Entire Holy Scriptures, and that they May Always Teach the Same. We have no slight reasons for treating the Catechism so constantly [in Sermons] and for both desiring and beseeching others to teach it, since we see to our sorrow that many pastors and preachers are very negligent in this, and slight both their office and this teaching; some from great and high art [giving their mind, as they imagine, to much higher matters], but others from sheer laziness and care for their paunches, assuming no other relation to this business than if they were pastors and preachers for their bellies' sake, and had nothing to do but to [spend and] consume their emoluments as long as they live, as they have been accustomed to do under the Papacy. And although they have now everything that they are to preach and teach placed before them so abundantly, clearly, and easily, in so many [excellent and] helpful books, and the true Sermones per se loquentes, 7
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Likewise also in common trade where
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girl tends a little child and faith
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Word, but gladly to learn, hear, an
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Article I. I believe in God the Fat
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And in Jesus Christ, His only Son,
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congregation, and places us in the
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until the last day, the Holy Ghost
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yet know not what His mind towards
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commandment He gives us plainly to
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and name which he desires; if not,
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shame, but honor and praise from us
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death, and hell shall be exterminat
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whatever we pray concerns only us,
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the devil. For all his thought and
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trespasses, your heavenly Father wi
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acknowledge themselves conquered. E
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God's commandment and institution,
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For do you think it was a jest that
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Thus you see plainly that there is
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elieve, so that on that account He
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topple us over by force, he prowls
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Now, it is true, as we have said, t
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prepared to receive forgiveness of
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