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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: interpreting Scripture. All these men are seeking to set up their
own impieties in the Church under your name, and alas! Satan has
gained much through them in the time of your predecessors.
In brief, trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who
humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God: "He hath cast
down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble."
See how unlike Christ was to His successors, though all will have
it that they are His vicars. I fear that in truth very many of
them have been in too serious a sense His vicars, for a vicar
represents a prince who is absent. Now if a pontiff rules while
Christ is absent and does not dwell in his heart, what else is he
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