[673] Ib., 49, p. 315.
[674] Aquinas, “Summa theol.,” 3, q. 40, a. 2 ad 1. In ep. ad Tim. c. 4, lect. 2. “Summa theol.,” 2, 2, q. 88, a, 2 ad 3. Denifle, ib., 1², p. 365 f., where other quotations are given from Thomas and the mediæval theologians.—Cp. the wholesome teaching of the “Imitation”—already widely read in Luther’s day—on the value of outward works compared with interior virtue and charity (Bk. II., cap. 1): “Regnum Dei intra vos est, dicit Dominus,” are the words with which it begins. Bk. I., c. 19: “Multo plus debet esse intus quam quod cernitur foris,” and, again: “Iustorum propositum in gratia Dei potius quam in propria sapientia pendet,” etc. On the need of discretion see ib., 3, c. 7.
[675] “De non esu carnium ap. Carthus.,” “Opp.,” 2, pp. 723, 729. Denifle, ib., p. 370.
[676] Cp. Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 49.
[677] See above, vol. i., p. 80 ff.
[678] Weim. ed., 4, p. 626. Denifle, 1², p. 376 f.
[679] Ib., 6, p. 246; Erl. ed., 16², p. 180. Denifle, 1², p. 377 f.
[680] Weim. ed., 37, p. 661. Sermon of Feb. 1, 1534.
[681] “Opp. lat. exeg.,” 18, p. 226. Enarr. in ps. 45. Jan., 1532.
[682] Weim. ed., 33, p. 561; Erl. ed., 48, p. 306. In the Comment. on John vi.-viii., 27 Oct., 1531.