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The Ninety-five Theses

those most courteous men do not fear openly to involve both the Prince and the University in the same disgrace with myself.[1]

Wherefore, most blessed Father, I cast myself at the feet of your Holiness, with all that I have and all that I am. Quicken, kill, call, recall, approve, reprove, as you will. In your voice I shall recognize the voice of Christ directing you and speaking in you. If I have deserved death, I shall not refuse to die. For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.[2] He is blessed forever. Amen.

May He have you too forever in His keeping. Amen.

ANNO MDXVIII.


  1. See Tetzel's II. Disputation, Theses 47, 48. Loescher, I, p. 522.
  2. Ps. 24:1