Excerpt from The Life of Martin Luther: Related From Original Authorities

Accordingly it is evident, that this History of Luther stands diametrically in Opposition to those histories which represent him in the light of our times, or dress him in this or that garment, according to the peculiar plan that may, perchance, be followed.

As regards the selection, made from the rich treasury which stands at the command of a biographer of Luther, the compiler does not expect to have satisfied all, nor that he has always hit upon the right. But he must also, in this respect, for the understanding of some, remind, wherein his work differs, if not from all, still from many of its equals.

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