[190] “In 2 Sent.,” dist. 28, a. 1 ad 4. Denifle-Weiss, ib., p. 482, n. 1. Cp. Luther’s frequent statement, already sufficiently considered in our vol. iv., p. 476 f., in which he sums up his new standpoint: Good works never make a good man, but good men perform good works.
[191] Cp. Denifle-Weiss, ib., p. 598.
[192] Denifle-Weiss, p. 604. Cp. also p. 600, n. 2, where Denifle remarks: “Being an Occamist he never understood actual grace.”
[193] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 15², p. 60. After the words quoted above follows the remarkable passage: One builds churches, another makes pilgrimages, etc. “These are self-chosen works which God has not commanded.... Such self-chosen works are nought ... are sin.”
[194] Ib., p. 61 f.
[195] “Symb. Bücher,” ed. Müller-Kolde,10, p. 599 f.
[196] Ib. The Thesis of man’s lack of freedom is bluntly expressed on p. 589, and in the sequel it is pointed out that in Luther’s larger Catechism not one word is found concerning free-will. Reference is made to his comparison of man with the lifeless pillar of salt (p. 593), and to Augustine’s “Confessions” (p. 596).
[197] The last remark is from Loofs, “DG.,”4, p. 857. Cp. our vol. iii., p. 348 ff. and passim.
[198] “Symb. Bücher,” ib., p. 601.
[199] Ib.