Despair Makes Priests And Friars.

Unless I Am Convicted By Scripture And Plain Reason-i Do Not Accept The Authority Of Popes And Councils, For They Have Contradicted Each Other-my Conscience Is Captive To The Word Of God. I Cannot And Will Not Recant Anything, For To Go Against Conscience Is Neither Right Nor Safe. Here I Stand, I Cannot Do Otherwise. God Help Me. Amen.

[christ's] Mission And Work It Is To Help Against Sin And Death, To Justify And Bring Life. He Has Placed His Help In Baptism And The Sacrament [i.e., Communion/eucharist/lord's Supper], And Incorporated It In The Word And Preaching. To Our Eyes Baptism [capitalized In Original] Appears To Be Nothing More Than Ordinary Water, And The Sacrament Of Christ's Body And Blood Simple Bread And Wine, Like Other Bread And Wine, And The Sermon, Hot Air From A Man's Mouth. But We Must Not Trust What Our Eyes See.

The Inner Man Cannot Be Forced To Do Out Of His Own Free Will, What He Should Do, Except The Grace Of God Change The Heart And Make It Willing.

Hereby We May Understand That God, Of His Special Grace, Maketh The Teachers Of The Gospel Subject To The Cross, And To All Kinds Of Afflicitons, For The Salvation Of Themselves And Of The People; For Otherwise They Could By No Means Beat Down This Beast Which Is Called Vain-glory.

Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid? One With God Is A Majority.