[757] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 61, p. 196.
[758] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 12, p. 94; Erl. ed., 51, p. 6.
[759] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 18, p. 276=53; p. 288; “Briefe,” ed. De Wette, 2, p. 639 (“Briefwechsel,” 5, p. 145).
[760] Ibid., p. 410=311=676 (to Archbishop Albert of Mayence).
[761] Ibid., 10, 2, p. 279=16², p. 515, in sermon quoted above, p. 242, n. 1; Luther here speaks of “three kinds of men” whom God has exempted from matrimony.
[762] In the letter to the Archbishop of Mayence. “I speak of the natural man. With those to whom God gives the grace of chastity I do not interfere.”
[763] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 10, 2, p. 291 f.; Erl. ed., 16², p. 527 f. “Vom Eelichen Leben,” 1522.
[764] Letter of July 13, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 189. Cp. our vol. ii., pp. 82 f., 94 f.
[765] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 16, p. 511; cp. p. 512.
[766] For other passages in which Luther inculcates either chastity or faithfulness in the married state, see, for instance, “Werke,” Weim. ed., 10, 2, pp. 298, 302; Erl. ed., 16², pp. 132 f., 137, and “Colloq.,” ed. Rebenstock, 2, p. 95; “Deus omnipotens ... castus, etc., castitatem diligit, pudicitiam et verecundiam ornat,” etc.