We can, therefore, see no inconsistency between what we have published
on this subject at distant intervals, certainly much less than might
have occurred to the most careful and conscientious writer, on a
subject so closely connected with the fluctuations of language.
Doubtless, by taking detached portions of a paragraph apart from the
limitations connected with them, and falsely imputing sinister motives
to almost every sentence, it in possible to make the most correct author
contradict himself and misrepresent his subject; but with such men,
whether their misrepresentations arise from deliberate design or
inveterate general habit, we cannot consent to debate. The injury done
is rather to the cause of Christ and of truth than ourselves, and we can
well afford to commit the case for adjudication to that Omniscient
Being, "who judgeth righteously."
Note 1. See Luther's Works, Leipsic ed., Vol. xxi, pp. 447, 448.
Note 2. See Luther's letter to Prince George in his Works, Vol. xxi.,
p. 430.
Note 3. Vol. iii., p. 114.
Note 4. See Murdock, Edition of Moshiem's History, Vol. iii, page 53,
Harper's edition.
Note 5. Fuhrmann's Lexicon, Vol. iii., p. 3.
Note 6. Siegel's Manual, Vol. iii., p. 362.
Note 7. Ibid, p. 366.
Note 8. Ibid, p. 375.
Note 9. Luther's Works, Vol. xxii., p. 233-37.
Note 10. Ibid, p. 237.
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