[635] See Stange, ibid., p. 35 ff.
[636] Thesis 13, in Stange, ibid., p. 53. “Werke,” Weim. ed., 1, p. 354; “Opp. Lat. var.,” 1, p. 388. Cp. Thesis 14: “Liberum arbitrium post peccatum potest in bonum potentia subiectiva, in malum vero activa semper.” On the Heidelberg Disputation, see volume i., p. 315 ff.
[637] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 2, p. 421; “Opp. Lat var.,” 3, p. 272.
[638] Ibid., p. 424 = p. 276.
[639] Jul. Köstlin, “Luthers Theologie,” 1², Stuttgart, 1901, p. 218.
[640] In the “Assertio omnium articulorum,” “Werke,” Weim. ed., 7, p. 148; “Opp. Lat. var.,” 5, p. 234. Cp. ibid., p. 146 = p. 231: “Patimur omnes et omnia: cessat liberum arbitrium erga Deum.”
[641] Ibid., p. 146 = p. 230. This passage was toned down, after Luther’s death, in the Wittenberg ed. (1546) and Jena ed. (1557); Köstlin, “Luthers Theologie,” 2², p. 316 n.
[642] “Werke,” ibid., p. 143 ff.=p. 227 ff. It is strange but characteristic how he appeals to experience as against the doctrine of free-will: everyone possessed arguments against it “ex vita propria.... Secus rem se habere monstrat experientia omnium” (p. 145=p. 230). His views of concupiscence come in here.
[643] “Non est homo in manu sua, etiam mala operans et cogitans” (ibid., p. 145=p. 230).
[644] “Nam et mala opera in impiis Deus operatur” (ibid.).